Surname Vresk in modern Croatia

Vresk families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ivanec and Varazdin.

Prevalence

About 220 people with faimily name Vresk live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Bedenec (55), Zagreb (30), Zarovnica (25), Cakovec (15), and in Bjelovar (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vresk (including: Veresk , Wresch , Vresch , Vrösch , Weresch and Wresche ) is present in 21 countries worldwide. The family name "Vresk " is used by small number of people in Canada and small number in the United States. "Wresch " is used by some 200 people in Germany and about 70 in the United States. "Wresche " is used by some 50 people in the United States and small number in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Vladimir Vresk, Velimir Vresk, Milan Vresk, Zvonimir Vresk, Filip Vresk, Ivan Vresk, Dragutin Vresk, Josip Vresk, Mario Vresk, Sanja Vresk, Zoran Vresk, Antun Vresk, Krešimir Vresk, Marko Vresk, Igor Vresk, Željko Vresk, Ladislav Vresk, Darko Vresk, Stjepan Vresk

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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