Surname Prelog in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 170 people with faimily name Prelog live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Cacinci in Orahovica area (20), Vrbovec (15), Sesvete (10), and in Struga in Ludbreg area (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Prelog is present in 13 countries worldwide. The family name "Prelog " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Egypt , and small number of people in Austria.

Characteristic first names

Nenad Prelog, Zlatan Prelog, Petar Prelog, Tihomir Prelog, Davorka Prelog, Andrea Prelog, Slađana Prelog, Vladimir Prelog, Marko Prelog, Milan Prelog, Jasenka Prelog, Zlatko Prelog, Tomislav Prelog, Natalija Prelog, Katja Prelog, Marin Prelog, Željko Prelog, Dejan Prelog, Nada Prelog

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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