Surname Valjavec.

  • Surname Valjavec in modern Croatia

    Valjavec families are Croats the family name originates from Krapina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Krapina and Zagreb. In Orehovec Radobojski in Krapina area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Valjavec.

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  • Prevalence

    About 150 people with faimily name Valjavec live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
    They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Lepajci (40), Orehovec Radobojski in Krapina area (30), Velika Ves (30), Zagreb (20), and in Kutina (15).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Valjavec is present in 7 countries on three continents.

  • Characteristic first names

    Rudolf Valjavec, Nevenka Valjavec, Natalija Valjavec, Ksenija Valjavec, Damir Valjavec, Stjepan Valjavec, Dragutin Valjavec, Tomislav Valjavec, Danijela Valjavec, Zdravko Valjavec, Srečko Valjavec, Petar Valjavec, Alen Valjavec, Branka Valjavec, Ines Valjavec, Jasminko Valjavec, Barica Valjavec, Mirjana Valjavec, Ivan Valjavec

  • Last name Valjavec around the globe

    See the countries where surname Valjavec 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 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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