Surname Šparavec in modern Croatia

Šparavec families are Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cakovec. In Jelenjak in Pregrada area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Šparavec.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Šparavec live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 80 percent.
They are located and 9 other Croatian places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Ziskovec (10), Slemenice (<10), Turnisce Desinicko in Pregrada area (<5), and in Novaki in Samobor area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šparavec is present in 6 countries on three continents. The family name "Sparavec " is used by small number of people in Australia and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dejan Šparavec, Krešimir Šparavec, Mladen Šparavec, Ivica Šparavec, Aleksandar Šparavec, Miljenko Šparavec, Neven Šparavec, Jasenka Šparavec, Antun Šparavec, Albena Šparavec, Davor Šparavec, Tomislav Šparavec, Robert Šparavec, Dražen Šparavec, Stiven Šparavec, Miroslav Šparavec, Stjepan Šparavec, Sanja Šparavec, Željko Šparavec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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