Surname Črnec in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Črnec families are Croats (from Krizevci area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Krizevci area and in Koprivnica. In Črnčevec in Krizevci area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Črnec.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Črnec live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and 8 other places, mostly in Krizevci (<10), in Crncevec (<10), Bockovec (<5) and Bogacevo (<5) in Krizevci area, and in Novi Djurdjic (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Črnec (including: Crnec , Cernec , Chernez , Cernech , Chernetz , Czernec and Cernetz ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. "Cernech " is used by some 70 people in the United States. "Czernec " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Chernez " is used by some 80 people in Ecuador and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vlado Črnec, Marijan Črnec, Dario Črnec, Alenka Črnec, Željko Črnec, Kristina Črnec, Ljiljana Črnec, Valentina Črnec, Josipa Črnec, Ivica Črnec, Dragutin Črnec, Stjepan Črnec, Branka Črnec, Dalibor Črnec, Emil Črnec, Ivan Črnec, Danica Črnec, Božidar Črnec, Velimir Črnec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1927 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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