Surname Vrhovec.

  • Surname Vrhovec in modern Croatia

    Vrhovec families are Croats and they are mostly from Oroslavje area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Krapina. In Žejinci in Oroslavje area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Vrhovec.

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  • Prevalence

    About 430 people with faimily name Vrhovec live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 340 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
    They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 46 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Krizevci (50), Luka in Oroslavje area (45), Tkalci (35), and in Zutnica (20).

  • Outside Croatia

    At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Germany (2) and the United States (1).
    Family name Vrhovec (including: Verhovec , Vrhowec ) is present in 10 countries on three continents. "Verhovec " is used by some 90 people in the United States and small number in Germany.

  • Characteristic first names

    Danijela Vrhovec, Stjepan Vrhovec, Tomislav Vrhovec, Goran Vrhovec, Vesna Vrhovec, Krešimir Vrhovec, Ivica Vrhovec, Branko Vrhovec, Zdenko Vrhovec, Siniša Vrhovec, Marijan Vrhovec, Mladenka Vrhovec, Franjo Vrhovec, Ljubica Vrhovec, Alen Vrhovec, Sanjica Vrhovec, Vladimir Vrhovec, Ivan Vrhovec, Dražen Vrhovec

  • Last name Vrhovec around the globe

    See the countries where surname Vrhovec 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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