Surname Petrinec in modern Croatia

Petrinec families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin.

Prevalence

About 330 people with faimily name Petrinec live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 440 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 23 cities and 40 other places, mostly in Zagreb (105), Varazdin (25), Petrova Gora in Zlatar area (20), Pristava in Klanjec area (20), and in Risvica in Pregrada area (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Petrinec is present in 11 countries on four continents. The family name "Petrinec " is used by some 100 people in Slovakia , about 100 in the United States , and small number of people in Switzerland.

Characteristic first names

Nikica Petrinec, Ljiljana Petrinec, Zdravko Petrinec, Tomislav Petrinec, Manuelo Petrinec, Zlatko Petrinec, Ivica Petrinec, Zrinko Petrinec, Krešimir Petrinec, Ivan Petrinec, Rudolf Petrinec, Mirjana Petrinec, Branko Petrinec, Maja Petrinec, Snežana Petrinec, Tatjana Petrinec, Nataša Petrinec, Katica Petrinec, Ana Petrinec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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