Surname Roginek in modern Croatia

Roginek families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof area and in Varazdin. In Jales Breznički in Novi Marof area every second inhabitant had the family name Roginek.

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Roginek live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Jales Breznicki in Novi Marof area (50), Ivanecko Naselje (25), Varazdin (15), Zagreb (10), and in Breznicki Hum in Novi Marof area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Roginek is present in four countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Igor Roginek, Krunoslav Roginek, Nataša Roginek, Vjekoslav Roginek, Ivan Roginek, Željko Roginek, Zvonimir Roginek, Ana Roginek, Branko Roginek, Zdravko Roginek, Josip Roginek, Stjepan Roginek, Valentina Roginek, Dražen Roginek, Davorka Roginek, Gordana Roginek, Tatjana Roginek, Ljiljana Roginek, Đurđica Roginek

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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