Surname Banco in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Banco families are Italians (from Pula area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Banco live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in one Croatian city only, in Vodnjan in Pula area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Banco (including: Banzo , Bancho and Banzho ) is present in 56 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Italo Banco, Graziella Banco, Josip Banco, Boris Banco, Andrea Banco, Ilaria Banco, Ada Banco, Amelia Banco, Anastasia Banco, Angela Banco, Antonia Banco, Antonio Banco, Bortolo Banco, Francesco Banco, Giorgio Banco, Giovanna Banco, Giovanni Banco, Giuseppe Banco, Giustina Banco

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1924 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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