Surname Žganec.

  • Surname Žganec in modern Croatia

    Žganec families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Varazdin. In Črešnjevo in Varazdin area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Žganec.

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  • Prevalence

    About 680 people with faimily name Žganec live in Croatia today, in 270 households. There were 480 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 72 other places, mostly in Cakovec (80), Zagreb (60), Beretinec in Varazdin area (60), Varazdin (40), and in Mursko Sredisce (35).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Žganec is present in this form only in Croatia.

  • Characteristic first names

    Srećko Žganec, Nino Žganec, Tomislav Žganec, Krešimir Žganec, Karmen Žganec, Mario Žganec, Dubravko Žganec, Robert Žganec, Zvonko Žganec, Josip Žganec, Gordana Žganec, Štefica Žganec, Spomenka Žganec, Jadranka Žganec, Silvija Žganec, Liljana Žganec, Radovan Žganec, Draženka Žganec, Dragutin Žganec

  • Last name Žganec around the globe

    See the countries where surname Žganec is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

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

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