Surname Sabolek in modern Croatia

Sabolek families are Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof and Varazdin.

Prevalence

About 290 people with faimily name Sabolek live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 38 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Dekanovec in Prelog area (25), Cakovec (15), Jelenscak (15), and in Donji Miholjac (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Sabolek is present in 10 countries on three continents. The family name "Sabolek " is used by small number of people in Germany , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Austria.

Characteristic first names

Josip Sabolek, Petrana Sabolek, Miroslav Sabolek, Zdravko Sabolek, Stjepan Sabolek, Mladen Sabolek, Elizabeta Sabolek, Jelena Sabolek, Tomislav Sabolek, Vladimir Sabolek, Dalibor Sabolek, Saša Sabolek, Vesna Sabolek, Ivana Sabolek, Ivanka Sabolek, Tomica Sabolek, Nikola Sabolek, Jasminka Sabolek, Kruno Sabolek

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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