Surname Trstenjak in modern Croatia

Trstenjak 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 Cakovec and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 730 people with faimily name Trstenjak live in Croatia today, in 310 households. There were 590 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 84 other places, mostly in Zagreb (100), Cakovec (65), Belica in Cakovec area (40), Mursko Sredisce (30), and in Varazdin (25).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (2), the Netherlands (1), the United States (1), France (1), Austria (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Trstenjak (including: Terstenyak , Terstenjak ) is present in 15 countries on three continents. The family name "Trstenjak " is used by small number of people in Germany , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Switzerland. "Terstenyak " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Davorin Trstenjak, Bruno Trstenjak, Antun Trstenjak, Igor Trstenjak, Josip Trstenjak, Dragutin Trstenjak, Tomo Trstenjak, Željko Trstenjak, Iva Trstenjak, Nada Trstenjak, Sanja Trstenjak, Marija Trstenjak, Radovan Trstenjak, Branko Trstenjak, Sebastian Trstenjak, Vladimir Trstenjak, Stjepan Trstenjak, Denis Trstenjak, Stanko Trstenjak

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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