Surname Pereković in modern Croatia

Pereković families are Croats and they are mostly from Glina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Glina and Zagreb. In places Donji Selkovac and Šatornja in Glina every sixth inhabitant had the family name Pereković.

Prevalence

About 330 people with faimily name Pereković live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 350 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 39 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Satornja (35), Velika Gorica (25), Glina (20), and in Petrinja (20).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), France (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Pereković (including: Perekovic , Perekovich ) is present in five countries on two continents. "Perekovich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vesna Pereković, Klara Pereković, Mario Pereković, Željko Pereković, Anka Pereković, Tatjana Pereković, Sanja Pereković, Petra Pereković, Kata Pereković, Kristijan Pereković, Marijan Pereković, Maja Pereković, Katarina Pereković, Božica Pereković, Marijo Pereković, Stevo Pereković, Ivan Pereković, Mirjana Pereković, Antun Pereković

Mentions in sources

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

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