Surname Valent in modern Croatia

Valent families are Croats and they are mostly from Koprivnica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Koprivnica.

Prevalence

About 300 people with faimily name Valent live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 410 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 40 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Koprivnica (40), Imbriovec in Koprivnica area (25), Bjelovar (10), and in Djakovo (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Valent (including: Walent , Wallent , Vahlent , Vallent , Valenthin and Vallient ) is present in 59 countries worldwide. The family name "Valent " is used by some 2000 people in Indonesia , about 1000 in Slovakia , and some 900 people in the United States. "Vallient " is used by few people in the United States. "Walent " is used by some 200 people in the United States and small number in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Valent, Anđa Valent, Tomislav Valent, Josip Valent, Leonard Valent, Davor Valent, Neven Valent, Tihomir Valent, Damir Valent, Ljiljana Valent, Marko Valent, Darko Valent, Aleksandar Valent, Željko Valent, Marija Valent, Jasenka Valent, Štefanija Valent, Sandra Valent, Barica Valent

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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