Surname Staroveški in modern Croatia

Staroveški families are Croats and they are mostly from Klanjec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Klanjec area. In Poljana Sutlanska in Klanjec area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Staroveški.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Staroveški live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Grletinec in Pregrada area (15), Plavic in Klanjec area (15), Karlovac (10), and in Hum na Sutli in Pregrada area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Staroveški (including: Staroveski , Starowesky ) is present in three countries on two continents. "Starowesky " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mladen Staroveški, Milena Staroveški, Jasna Staroveški, Mirjana Staroveški, Bruno Staroveški, Krešimir Staroveški, Siniša Staroveški, Dražen Staroveški, Vlasta Staroveški, Suzana Staroveški, Marija Staroveški, Tomislav Staroveški, Vjekoslav Staroveški, Lea Staroveški, Damir Staroveški, Rafko Staroveški, Miro Staroveški, Božica Staroveški, Orhida Staroveški

Mentions in sources

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

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