Surname Tušek in modern Croatia

Tušek families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Krapina. In Jazvine in Krapina area every third inhabitant had the family name Tušek.

Prevalence

About 1300 people with faimily name Tušek live in Croatia today, in 530 households. There were 1200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 51 cities and 144 other places, mostly in Zagreb (225), in Jazvine (110) and Radoboj (45) in Krapina area, Koprivnica (40), and in Ples in Lepoglava area (35).

Outside Croatia

Family name Tušek (including: Tusek , Tushek , Tuschek and Tuseck ) is present in 23 countries worldwide. The family name "Tusek " is used by some 200 people in Germany , about 100 in the United States , and some 100 people in Czech Republic. "Tushek " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Tuseck " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ksenija Tušek, Snježana Tušek, Boris Tušek, Tatjana Tušek, Božo Tušek, Alojz Tušek, Darovan Tušek, Krunoslav Tušek, Dijana Tušek, Ivka Tušek, Mario Tušek, Damir Tušek, Dražen Tušek, Daniela Tušek, Ivan Tušek, Hrvoje Tušek, Žarko Tušek, Branislav Tušek, Mladen Tušek

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1769 in source 18th Century Census.

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