Surname Rubes in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Rubes families are Croats (from Jastrebarsko ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Jastrebarsko and Zagreb. In Pavlovčani in Jastrebarsko every sixth inhabitant had the family name Rubes.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Rubes live in Croatia today, in 16 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Pavlovcani (20), Jastrebarsko (<10), Zagreb (<10), Karlovac (<5), and in Klokovec in Krapina area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rubes (including: Hrubes , Rubesh , Rubess , Hrubesh , Hrubesz and Rubees ) is present in 16 countries worldwide. The family name "Rubes " is used by some 200 people in the United States and about 100 in Czech Republic. "Rubess " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Rubesh " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Thailand , and small number of people in Czech Republic , small number of people in Oman.

Characteristic first names

Josip Rubes, Jasminka Rubes, Mladen Rubes, Danica Rubes, Aleksandra Rubes, Andreja Rubes, Martina Rubes, Danijel Rubes, Vesna Rubes, Pavao Rubes, Dobriša Rubes, Dragutin Rubes, Dragica Rubes, Zlatko Rubes, Marina Rubes, Miroslav Rubes, Zdravka Rubes, Ivica Rubes, Ljubomir Rubes

Mentions in sources

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

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