Surname Đeka in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Đeka families are Croats (from Drnis ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis. In Sedramić in Drnis every sixtieth inhabitant had the family name Đeka.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Đeka live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Kastel Novi (<10), Sedramic (<10), Split (<5), Drnis (<5), and in Umljanovic in Drnis area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Đeka (including: Deka , Gjeka , Decka , Dekka , Djeka , Geka , Gjecka , Dieka , Djecka and Gieka ) is present in 105 countries worldwide. "Gjeka " is used by some 500 people in Albania , about 90 in Italy , and small number of people in the United States. "Gjecka " is used by some 200 people in Albania and small number in the United States. "Gerka " is used by some 70 people in Poland and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivana Đeka, Ana Đeka, Željko Đeka, Snježana Đeka, Ante Đeka, Josipa Đeka, Paško Đeka, Ivan Đeka, Željka Đeka, Marija Đeka, Petar Đeka, Stana Đeka, Robert Đeka, Josip Đeka, Anđela Đeka, Bruna Đeka, Antonio Đeka, Luca Đeka, Božica Đeka

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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