Surname Štefanec in modern Croatia

Štefanec families are Croats and they are mostly from Ludbreg area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and in Lepoglava area. In Meljan in Lepoglava area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Štefanec.

Prevalence

About 540 people with faimily name Štefanec live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 530 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 62 other places, mostly in Kapela Podravska in Ludbreg area (45), Zagreb (45), Koprivnica (30), Selnik in Ivanec area (25), and in Meljan in Lepoglava area (25).

Outside Croatia

At least 12 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Austria (4), the United States (3), Germany (3), Switzerland (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Štefanec (including: Stefanec , Stefanech , Stefanetz and Stefanez ) is present in 15 countries on three continents. The family name "Stefanec " is used by some 900 people in Slovakia , about 200 in the United States , and some 100 people in Canada. "Stefanech " is used by few people in the United States. "Stefanez " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Lidija Štefanec, Petar Štefanec, Mladen Štefanec, Dubravka Štefanec, Darko Štefanec, Mario Štefanec, Slaven Štefanec, Nataša Štefanec, Pero Štefanec, Ivan Štefanec, Tatjana Štefanec, Renato Štefanec, Mirjana Štefanec, Vatroslav Štefanec, Miroslav Štefanec, Martin Štefanec, Vlatko Štefanec, Đurđa Štefanec, Melita Štefanec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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