Surname Vrbanek in modern Croatia

Vrbanek families are Croats and they are mostly from Ozalj. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ozalj and Karlovac. In Zorkovac Vivodinski in Ozalj nearly every inhabitant had the family name Vrbanek.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Vrbanek live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 15 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Karlovac (15), Sunja in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (10), Zorkovac Vivodinski (10), and in Vivodina (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vrbanek (including: Vrbanec , Verbanek , Wrbanek and Verbanec ) is present in 14 countries on four continents. "Verbanek " is used by some 70 people in Brazil , small number in Venezuela , and small number of people in the United States. "Wrbanek " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Verbanec " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Igor Vrbanek, Julijana Vrbanek, Luka Vrbanek, Dražen Vrbanek, Oliva Vrbanek, Krešimir Vrbanek, Josip Vrbanek, Mirjana Vrbanek, Andrea Vrbanek, Matija Vrbanek, Ivan Vrbanek, Tihomir Vrbanek, Marina Vrbanek, Kristina Vrbanek, Julij Vrbanek, Branko Vrbanek, Katarina Vrbanek, Anđelko Vrbanek, Vesna Vrbanek

Mentions in sources

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

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