Surname Zorčec in modern Croatia

Zorčec families are Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and in Mursko Sredisce area.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Zorčec live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 15 other places, mostly in Cakovec (20), Novo Selo Rok (10), Dekanovec in Prelog area (<10), Beli Manastir (<10), and in Jagodnjak in Beli Manastir area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Zorčec is present in three countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Josip Zorčec, Kristijan Zorčec, Zlatko Zorčec, Zoran Zorčec, Smilja Zorčec, Stjepan Zorčec, Antun Zorčec, Emina Zorčec, Bojan Zorčec, Mirjana Zorčec, Elizabeta Zorčec, Katarina Zorčec, Jasenka Zorčec, Blaženka Zorčec, Vesna Zorčec, Dragutin Zorčec, Marica Zorčec, Tihomir Zorčec, Bosiljka Zorčec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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