Surname Posavec in modern Croatia

Posavec families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdinske Toplice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cakovec. In places Drenovec and Leskovec Toplički in Varazdinske Toplice every seventh inhabitant had the family name Posavec.

Prevalence

About 3500 people with faimily name Posavec live in Croatia today, in 1400 households. There were 3800 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 64 cities and 368 other places, mostly in Zagreb (490), Nedelisce in Cakovec area (175), Koprivnica (170), Cakovec (155), and in Varazdin (140).

Outside Croatia

At least 31 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (6), Germany (6), Australia (5), Switzerland (5), Canada (3), Austria (2), France (2), Spain (1), and to Norway (1).
Family name Posavec is present in 17 countries worldwide. The family name "Posavec " is used by some 200 people in Poland , about 100 in the United States , and some 60 people in Germany. "Posavetz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Koraljka Posavec, Zdenko Posavec, Višnja Posavec, Stjepan Posavec, Kristijan Posavec, Josip Posavec, Dubravko Posavec, Dijana Posavec, Ivan Posavec, Zvonko Posavec, Dražen Posavec, Kristina Posavec, Darko Posavec, Dina Posavec, Jasmina Posavec, Ljubica Posavec, Dobrivoj Posavec, Jasminka Posavec, Nataša Posavec

Mentions in sources

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

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