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Surname Tkalec in modern Croatia
Tkalec families are Croats and they are mostly from Mursko Sredisce area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cakovec. In Lastine in Pregrada area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Tkalec.
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Prevalence
About 1200 people with faimily name Tkalec live in Croatia today, in 530 households. There were 1300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 49 cities and 144 other places, mostly in Zagreb (345), Cakovec (45), Velika Gorica (30), Varazdin (30), and in Koprivnica (30).
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Outside Croatia
At least 32 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (10), Germany (8), Austria (4), Canada (3), the United States (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (1), and to France (1).
Family name Tkalec (including: Tkalecz , Tkalech ) is present in 21 countries worldwide.
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Characteristic first names
Zdravko Tkalec,
Antonio Tkalec,
Katja Tkalec,
Jasminka Tkalec,
Gabrijela Tkalec,
Stjepan Tkalec,
Tomislav Tkalec,
Zoran Tkalec,
Trpimir Tkalec,
Siniša Tkalec,
Nina Tkalec,
Stanislav Tkalec,
Krešimir Tkalec,
Nikola Tkalec,
Srečko Tkalec,
Damir Tkalec,
Ivo Tkalec,
Tvrtko Tkalec,
Mirela Tkalec
