Surname Capan in modern Croatia

Capan families are Croats and they are mostly from Ogulin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ogulin area and in Zagreb. In places Tounj and Rebrovići in Ogulin area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Capan.

Prevalence

About 830 people with faimily name Capan live in Croatia today, in 350 households. There were 670 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 39 cities and 72 other places, mostly in Zagreb (270), Karlovac (70), Rijeka (50), Ogulin (25), and in Hrvatski Leskovac (25).

Outside Croatia

Family name Capan (including: Zapan , Chapan , Chappan , Cappan , Zappan , Chaphan and Capaan ) is present in 33 countries worldwide. The family name "Capan " is used by some 7000 people in Turkey , about 600 in the United States , and some 200 people in Romania. "Zappan " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Chappan " is used by some 100 people in Saudi Arabia , small number in United Arab Emirates , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivana Capan, Darko Capan, Nikola Capan, Ivan Capan, Ivica Capan, Davor Capan, Kristina Capan, Fioretta Capan, Božica Capan, Renata Capan, Željko Capan, Tomislav Capan, Boris Capan, Jasmina Capan, Ksenija Capan, Gordana Capan, Maja Capan, Davorin Capan, Marko Capan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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