Surname Režek in modern Croatia

Režek families are Croats and they are mostly from Prelog. According to some sources they are from Jurjevcani in Plesivica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cakovec. In Plešivica in Jastrebarsko every sixth inhabitant had the family name Režek.

Prevalence

About 290 people with faimily name Režek live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 29 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Prelog (30), Plesivica (30), Cirkovljan (15), and in Jurjevcani (15).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (5), the United States (3), and to Germany (1).
Family name Režek (including: Rezek , Rezeq , Rezeck , Rezhek , Rezzek , Rezec and Rezsek ) is present in 39 countries worldwide. "Rezzek " is used by few people in the United States. "Rezec " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Danijel Režek, Borislav Režek, Zdravko Režek, Tea Režek, Krunoslav Režek, Sanja Režek, Damir Režek, Miro Režek, Silvio Režek, Dragutin Režek, Gordana Režek, Ljubica Režek, Valentin Režek, Vjeran Režek, Ivo Režek, Dejan Režek, Ivan Režek, Darko Režek, Mirjana Režek

Mentions in sources

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

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