Surname Costa in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Costa families are Croats (from Daruvar ).

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Costa live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in four Croatian cities only: in Zagreb (<5), Rijeka (<5), Zadar (<5), and in Daruvar (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Costa (including: Costta , Costha , Coosta , Ccosta , Costaa , Costah , Cossta , Hcosta and Chosta ) is present in 164 countries worldwide. "Chosta " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Irene Costa, Carlos Costa, Nikša Costa, Aniko Costa, Giuliano Costa, Carlo Costa, Giuseppe Costa, Mario Costa, Petar Costa, Andreas Costa, Gal Costa, Luca Costa, Luigi Costa, Oscar Costa, Paolo Costa, Zuleima Costa, Marcello Costa, Bruna Costa, Irena Costa

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1925 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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