In Croatia, Rečnik families are Croats (from Vrbovec ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Rečnik live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Zagreb (<5) and Luka (<5).
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.