Surname Presečan in modern Croatia

Presečan families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area and in Virovitica. In Dinjevac in Djurdjevac area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Presečan.

Prevalence

About 210 people with faimily name Presečan live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Djurdjevac (20), in Klostar Podravski (20) and Dinjevac (15) in Djurdjevac area, and in Osijek (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Presečan (including: Presecan , Peresechan and Pressecan ) is present in 15 countries on four continents. The family name "Presecan " is used by some 1000 people in Romania , about 100 in the United States , and some 60 people in Spain. "Pressecan " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Tomislav Presečan, Senka Presečan, Branko Presečan, Ankica Presečan, Ivan Presečan, Nataša Presečan, Krunoslav Presečan, Lana Presečan, Daniel Presečan, Mladen Presečan, Robert Presečan, Sanjica Presečan, Željko Presečan, Nena Presečan, Josip Presečan, Andrijana Presečan, Mato Presečan, Gordana Presečan, Marko Presečan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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