Surname Šarkanji in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Šarkanji families are Croats (from Novi Marof ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof and Varazdin.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Šarkanji live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and threee other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Varazdin (<10), Novi Marof (<5), Rijeka (<5), and in Presecno (<5).

Outside Croatia

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

Characteristic first names

Valentino Šarkanji, Ružica Šarkanji, Vladimir Šarkanji, Valentin Šarkanji, Slavko Šarkanji, Tatjana Šarkanji, Đuro Šarkanji, Mladen Šarkanji, Ivan Šarkanji, Zvonko Šarkanji, Stjepan Šarkanji, Danijela Šarkanji, Maja Šarkanji, Kristina Šarkanji, Josip Šarkanji, Đurđica Šarkanji, Vlado Šarkanji, Matija Šarkanji, Koraljka Šarkanji

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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