Surname Vujec in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Vujec live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and four other places, mostly in Varazdin (40), Zagreb (35), Vizanovec (<10), Zapresic (<5), and in Cakovec (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vujec is present in 11 countries on three continents. "Wujec " is used by some 1000 people in Poland , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Vujec, Slavko Vujec, Nataša Vujec, Krešimir Vujec, Snježana Vujec, Željko Vujec, Nikola Vujec, Vedrana Vujec, Karlo Vujec, Blaženka Vujec, Dunja Vujec, Andreja Vujec, Stanko Vujec, Sniježana Vujec, Siniša Vujec, Željka Vujec, Branka Vujec, Marko Vujec, Mladen Vujec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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