Surname Šostarec in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Šostarec live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Djurdjevac (30), Bjelovar (15), Ferdinandovac in Djurdjevac area (10), Rijeka (<10), and in Kostrena Sveta Lucija in Bakr area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šostarec (including: Sostarec , Sostarecz and Schostarez ) is present in three countries on two continents. "Schostarez " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Sostarecz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Danijel Šostarec, Anđelko Šostarec, Mirko Šostarec, Mario Šostarec, Stjepan Šostarec, Dragutin Šostarec, Franjo Šostarec, Ivan Šostarec, Dario Šostarec, Miroslav Šostarec, Goran Šostarec, Gordana Šostarec, Jelena Šostarec, Marica Šostarec, Tomo Šostarec, Ignac Šostarec, Slavko Šostarec, Vinko Šostarec, Mladen Šostarec

Mentions in sources

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

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