Surname Šćukanec in modern Croatia

Šćukanec families are Croats and they are mostly from Zabok area and according to some sources from Veliko Trgovisce. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Zabok area. In Družilovec in Zabok area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Šćukanec.

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Šćukanec live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Druzilovec in Zabok area (45), Zapresic (10), Veliko Trgovisce in Zabok area (<10), and in Lucko (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šćukanec is present in three countries on two continents. The family name "Scukanec " is used by some 100 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Stjepan Šćukanec, Ninoslav Šćukanec, Božidar Šćukanec, Željko Šćukanec, Jadranka Šćukanec, Karmen Šćukanec, Petra Šćukanec, Ivo Šćukanec, Božica Šćukanec, Sandrica Šćukanec, Damir Šćukanec, Darko Šćukanec, Ruža Šćukanec, Dragutin Šćukanec, Jasna Šćukanec, Krunoslav Šćukanec, Nikola Šćukanec, Rada Šćukanec, Dražen Šćukanec

Mentions in sources

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

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