Surname Šćulac in modern Croatia

Šćulac families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Buzet , barely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Buzet. In places Šćulci and Barušići in Buzet every third inhabitant had the family name Šćulac.

Prevalence

About 350 people with faimily name Šćulac live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Rijeka (80), Barusici (35), Karlovac (35), Pula (30), and in Sculci (20).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šćulac (including: Sculac , Schiulaz and Schulatz ) is present in 8 countries on four continents. The family name "Sculac " is used by some 70 people in the United States and small number in Canada. "Schiulaz " is used by some 70 people in Argentina , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Italy. "Schulatz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Valter Šćulac, Milka Šćulac, Adrijano Šćulac, Igor Šćulac, Anelo Šćulac, Dušan Šćulac, Erika Šćulac, Dean Šćulac, Renato Šćulac, Margareta Šćulac, Damir Šćulac, Sonja Šćulac, Borislav Šćulac, Minja Šćulac, Irena Šćulac, Branimir Šćulac, Sandra Šćulac, Marinela Šćulac, Ivan Šćulac

Mentions in sources

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

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