Surname Zadravec in modern Croatia

Zadravec families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Cakovec , barely Slovenes (from Slovenia ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Zagreb. In Novo Selo Podravsko in Ludbreg area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Zadravec.

Prevalence

About 1400 people with faimily name Zadravec live in Croatia today, in 560 households. There were 1400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 35 cities and 147 other places, mostly in Zagreb (215), Cakovec (115), Varazdin (55), Sveta Marija in Prelog area (40), and in Mursko Sredisce (40).

Outside Croatia

At least 27 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Canada (9), Germany (8), France (4), Switzerland (2), Australia (2), the United States (1), and to Spain (1).
Family name Zadravec (including: Zadravecz , Zadravetz and Zadrawetz ) is present in 17 countries on four continents. The family name "Zadravec " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 80 in Austria , and some 70 people in Canada. "Zadravetz " is used by small number of people in Canada and small number of people in the United States. "Zadravecz " is used by some 200 people in Hungary and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Damir Zadravec, Drago Zadravec, Vladimir Zadravec, Bojan Zadravec, Denis Zadravec, Juraj Zadravec, Zrinko Zadravec, Lidija Zadravec, Boris Zadravec, Antonio Zadravec, Ivica Zadravec, Tomislav Zadravec, Dražen Zadravec, Ivan Zadravec, Martina Zadravec, Nikolina Zadravec, Franjo Zadravec, Ratko Zadravec, Mirjana Zadravec

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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