Surname Pečatnik in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pečatnik families are Croats (from Prelog ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Prelog.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Pečatnik live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are only located in in 7 Croatian cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Varazdin (<10), Nespes (<10), Lepoglava (<10), and in Cakovec (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pečatnik (including: Pechatnik , Pecatnik ) is present in five countries.

Characteristic first names

Ančica Pečatnik, Branka Pečatnik, Josip Pečatnik, Irena Pečatnik, Miljenko Pečatnik, Tomislav Pečatnik, Marko Pečatnik, Valentina Pečatnik, Željko Pečatnik, Zvonko Pečatnik, Nadica Pečatnik, Matija Pečatnik, Nevenka Pečatnik, Dragutin Pečatnik, Dragica Pečatnik, Igor Pečatnik, Dragana Pečatnik, Jakob Pečatnik, Andrija Pečatnik

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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