Surname Aleksa in modern Croatia

Aleksa families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdinske Toplice area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sibenik. In Kamešnica in Varazdinske Toplice area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Aleksa.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Aleksa live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Sibenik (25), Zagreb (20), Djakovo (10), Ferdinandovac in Djurdjevac area (10), and in Rijeka (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (1) and Germany (1).
Family name Aleksa (including: Alexa , Alecsa , Aleksha , Allexa , Aleksza and Alexxa ) is present in 77 countries worldwide. The family name "Aleksa " is used by some 900 people in Russian Federation , about 400 in Ukraine , and some 300 people in the United States. "Aleksza " is used by small number of people in Hungary and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Melita Aleksa, Milka Aleksa, Miroslav Aleksa, Ružica Aleksa, Mladen Aleksa, Zvonimir Aleksa, Tomislav Aleksa, Dubravka Aleksa, Jasminka Aleksa, Danijel Aleksa, Stanko Aleksa, Rade Aleksa, Svetlana Aleksa, Mate Aleksa, Dragica Aleksa, Slavko Aleksa, Ivan Aleksa, Nikola Aleksa, Josip Aleksa

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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