Surname Žukina in modern Croatia

Žukina families are Croats and they are mostly from Donja Stubica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Donja Stubica and Zagreb. In Donja Podgora in Donja Stubica every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Žukina.

Prevalence

About 190 people with faimily name Žukina live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Donja Stubica (65), Zagreb (45), Gornja Podgora (20), Daruvar (15), and in Podgradje in Zlatar area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Žukina (including: Zhukina , Zhuchkina , Zukina , Zhaukina , Zhuchina , Zukhina , Zhukhina and Zheukhina ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. The family name "Zukina " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Stela Žukina, Davor Žukina, Vladimir Žukina, Maja Žukina, Nenad Žukina, Dragan Žukina, Evita Žukina, Tomislav Žukina, Danijela Žukina, Biserka Žukina, Predrag Žukina, Miro Žukina, Damir Žukina, Goran Žukina, Valentina Žukina, Danijel Žukina, Petar Žukina, Juraj Žukina, Stjepan Žukina

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1927 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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