Surname Štrk in modern Croatia

Štrk families are Croats and they are mostly from Slunj area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Glina.

Prevalence

About 390 people with faimily name Štrk live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 370 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 32 cities and 46 other places, mostly in Zagreb (85), Luzani in Pleternica area (25), Djakovo (20), Osijek (20), and in Gornji Vidusevac (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Štrk (including: Sterk , Strk , Sterck , Sterkh , Shterk and Szterk ) is present in 51 countries worldwide. The family name "Strk " is used by some 600 people in Germany , small number in Australia , and small number of people in the United States. "Sterk " is used by some 7000 people in the Netherlands , about 4000 in Germany , and some 3000 people in the United States. "Sterck " is used by some 400 people in Belgium , about 100 in the United States , and some 90 people in France.

Characteristic first names

Vjekoslav Štrk, Hrvoje Štrk, Goran Štrk, Mirta Štrk, Miljenka Štrk, Marina Štrk, Davor Štrk, Miroslav Štrk, Karlo Štrk, Petar Štrk, Ivica Štrk, Svjetlana Štrk, Kristijan Štrk, Josip Štrk, Milan Štrk, Dragana Štrk, Ivan Štrk, Damir Štrk, Jelena Štrk

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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