Surname Tenšek.

  • Surname Tenšek in modern Croatia

    Tenšek families are Croats and they are mostly from Lepoglava area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Lepoglava area and in Zagreb. In places Zadravec , Martinec Orehovički and Vojnić-Breg in Lepoglava area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Tenšek.

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  • Prevalence

    About 260 people with faimily name Tenšek live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
    They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), in Zadravec (35) and Brestovec Orehovicki (20) in Lepoglava area, Zupanja (10), and in Galovec Zacretski in Zabok area (10).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Tenšek (including: Tenshek , Tensek ) is present in two countries on two continents.

  • Characteristic first names

    Ivan Tenšek, Damir Tenšek, Denis Tenšek, Stanko Tenšek, Sanja Tenšek, Gordana Tenšek, Ivica Tenšek, Miljenko Tenšek, Petar Tenšek, Branko Tenšek, Tomislav Tenšek, Josip Tenšek, Božidar Tenšek, Goran Tenšek, Martina Tenšek, Tatjana Tenšek, Draga Tenšek, Davor Tenšek, Stjepan Tenšek

  • Last name Tenšek around the globe

    See the countries where surname Tenšek is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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