Surname Salopek in modern Croatia

Salopek families are Croats and they are mostly from Ogulin. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ogulin and Slunj. In places Salopek Luke and Donji Furjan in Slunj every fourth inhabitant had the family name Salopek.

Prevalence

About 1800 people with faimily name Salopek live in Croatia today, in 730 households. There were 1700 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 0 percent.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 50 cities and 94 other places, mostly in Ogulin (460), Zagreb (325), Salopek Selo (85), Karlovac (75), and in Sabljak Selo (65).

Outside Croatia

At least 39 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (11), Germany (11), France (7), the United States (4), Sweden (3), and to Canada (3).
Family name Salopek is present in 20 countries worldwide. The family name "Salopek " is used by some 700 people in the United States , about 60 in Australia , and some 50 people in France. "Salopeck " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Davor Salopek, Ivan Salopek, Zlatka Salopek, Damir Salopek, Hrvoje Salopek, Ivica Salopek, Marijana Salopek, Miroslav Salopek, Branko Salopek, Ana Salopek, Zlatko Salopek, Ružica Salopek, Dragutin Salopek, Josip Salopek, Daniela Salopek, Venita Salopek, Saša Salopek, Zorko Salopek, Igor Salopek

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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