Surname Pretković in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Pretković live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Varazdin (20), Strahinje (10), Velika Veternicka in Lepoglava area (<10), and in Malo Trojstvo in Bjelovar area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pretković is present in two countries.

Characteristic first names

Vesna Pretković, Ivica Pretković, Robert Pretković, Mladen Pretković, Vlado Pretković, Ivan Pretković, Davor Pretković, Alan Pretković, Goran Pretković, Anita Pretković, Hrvoje Pretković, Marijan Pretković, Marino Pretković, Dubravko Pretković, Vladimir Pretković, Danko Pretković, Gordana Pretković, Dario Pretković, Bojan Pretković

Mentions in sources

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

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