Surname Rakošec in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Rakošec families are Croats (from Vrbovec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Bjelovar.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Rakošec live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties and another small place , mostly in Zagreb (<10), Plesivica (<5), Martinska Ves (<5), Gradec in Vrbovec area (<5), and in Osijek (<5).

Outside Croatia

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

Characteristic first names

Dražen Rakošec, Drago Rakošec, Stjepan Rakošec, Ivica Rakošec, Zlatko Rakošec, Željko Rakošec, Branko Rakošec, Vera Rakošec, Štefanija Rakošec, Mijo Rakošec, Radmila Rakošec, Ivan Rakošec, Zlata Rakošec, Vilim Rakošec, Đurđica Rakošec, Piedro Rakošec, Andrea Rakošec, Dario Rakošec, Valentina Rakošec

Mentions in sources

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

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