Surname Đuretek in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Đuretek families are Croats (from Koprivnica area ), barely Montenegrins. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Đuretek live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are only located in four Croatian cities and 8 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Samobor (<10), Novigrad Podravski in Djurdjevac area (<5), Grizane-Belgrad in Novi Vinodolski area (<5), and in Zlatar-Bistrica in Oroslavje area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Đuretek (including: Gjuretek , Gjuretec and Djuretek ) is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Josip Đuretek, Nenad Đuretek, Darko Đuretek, Jasmina Đuretek, Igor Đuretek, Krešimir Đuretek, Mirjana Đuretek, Ivan Đuretek, Marijan Đuretek, Ines Đuretek, Dunja Đuretek, Dina Đuretek, Milan Đuretek, Tomislav Đuretek, Božidar Đuretek, Stjepan Đuretek, Mirica Đuretek, Mirela Đuretek, Irena Đuretek

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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