Surname Vodopijevec in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Vodopijevec families are almost entirely Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sveti Ivan Zelina and Zagreb. In Paukovec in Sveti Ivan Zelina every sixth inhabitant had the family name Vodopijevec.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Vodopijevec live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Paukovec (<10), Blazevdol (<5), Paukovac in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (<5), and in Vukovje Zelinsko (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vodopijevec is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Alen Vodopijevec, Milivoj Vodopijevec, Ivan Vodopijevec, Ivica Vodopijevec, Vesna Vodopijevec, Davor Vodopijevec, Tomica Vodopijevec, Mira Vodopijevec, Ivanka Vodopijevec, Mirjana Vodopijevec, Danijela Vodopijevec, Milka Vodopijevec, Stjepan Vodopijevec, Nataša Vodopijevec, Nikica Vodopijevec, Robert Vodopijevec, Vjekoslav Vodopijevec, Marica Vodopijevec, Dragica Vodopijevec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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