Surname Plavec.

  • Surname Plavec in modern Croatia

    Plavec families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof area. According to some sources they are from a historical region of Galicia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Novi Marof area. In Dropkovec in Novi Marof area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Plavec.

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  • Prevalence

    About 220 people with faimily name Plavec live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
    They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (70), Dropkovec in Novi Marof area (20), Varazdin (20), Krizevci (15), and in Sisak (15).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Plavec (including: Plavecz , Plawetz ) is present in 17 countries worldwide. The family name "Plavec " is used by some 400 people in Czech Republic , about 100 in Slovakia , and some 70 people in the United States.

  • Characteristic first names

    Franjo Plavec, Ivica Plavec, Viktor Plavec, Andrea Plavec, Davor Plavec, Zdenko Plavec, Stjepan Plavec, Nikola Plavec, Jasenka Plavec, Vedran Plavec, Ankica Plavec, Veronika Plavec, Ivana Plavec, Miljenko Plavec, Mario Plavec, Marija Plavec, Tomislav Plavec, Josipa Plavec, Marijan Plavec

  • Last name Plavec around the globe

    See the countries where surname Plavec is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • 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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