Surname Pehnec in modern Croatia

Pehnec families are Croats and they are mostly from Lepoglava area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Lepoglava area. In Vrhovec Bednjanski in Lepoglava area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Pehnec.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Pehnec live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Varazdin (20), Koprivnica (<10), Hudovljani in Koprivnica area (<10), and in Sredice Gornje in Bjelovar area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pehnec is present in 7 countries on three continents. The family name "Pehnec " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Pechanec " is used by some 300 people in Czech Republic and about 90 in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mario Pehnec, Denis Pehnec, Darko Pehnec, Nenad Pehnec, Sandra Pehnec, Nevenka Pehnec, Gordana Pehnec, Stjepan Pehnec, Ksenija Pehnec, Marko Pehnec, Dragica Pehnec, Snježana Pehnec, Zlatko Pehnec, Marijan Pehnec, Željko Pehnec, Vesna Pehnec, Josip Pehnec, Blaženka Pehnec, Dominik Pehnec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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