Surname Prusec in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Prusec families are Croats (from Zagreb ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Dugo Selo.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Prusec live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in two Croatian counties, two cities and 5 other places, mostly in Sesvete (35), Dugo Selo (<10), Vuger Selo (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Djurdjekovec (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Prusec is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Josip Prusec, Danijela Prusec, Damir Prusec, Ivan Prusec, Zlatko Prusec, Nino Prusec, Marija Prusec, Katica Prusec, Marijan Prusec, Nadica Prusec, Krešo Prusec, Snježana Prusec, Nives Prusec, Franjo Prusec, Vlasta Prusec, Ivka Prusec, Mirjana Prusec, Marina Prusec, Miroslav Prusec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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