Surname Putarek in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Putarek live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 10 other places, mostly in Ivanec (50), Varazdin (35), Zagreb (20), Vuglovec (15), and in Kaniza (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Putarek is present in three countries on two continents. The family name "Putarek " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Krešimir Putarek, Marinko Putarek, Branko Putarek, Ivana Putarek, Ivica Putarek, Dario Putarek, Stanislav Putarek, Mladen Putarek, Rajko Putarek, Žarko Putarek, Biserka Putarek, Dragica Putarek, Nada Putarek, Manuela Putarek, Barica Putarek, Slavica Putarek, Snježana Putarek, Emina Putarek, Miran Putarek

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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