Surname Pleško in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 330 people with faimily name Pleško live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 360 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 23 cities and 42 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Cepelovac (30), Ferdinandovac in Djurdjevac area (25), Djurdjevac (25), and in Mala Erpenja in Krapina area (25).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pleško (including: Pleshko , Plesko , Plesco , Pleschenko , Pleschko , Pleszko , Plescho and Plessko ) is present in 24 countries on four continents. The family name "Plesko " is used by some 300 people in the United States and small number in Czech Republic. "Pleszko " is used by small number of people in Poland , small number in Brazil , and small number of people in the United States. "Plesco " is used by some 500 people in Moldova , about 100 in Romania , and some 60 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Sanja Pleško, Vinka Pleško, Marina Pleško, Draženka Pleško, Zoran Pleško, Davor Pleško, Tomislav Pleško, Bruno Pleško, Marijan Pleško, Katica Pleško, Vladimir Pleško, Renata Pleško, Ivan Pleško, Jonatan Pleško, Mihael Pleško, Damir Pleško, Vesna Pleško, Nada Pleško, Milenko Pleško

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1669 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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