Surname Cuculić in modern Croatia

Cuculić families are Croats and they are mostly from Bakar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Bakar. In Plosna in Bakar every second inhabitant had the family name Cuculić.

Prevalence

About 330 people with faimily name Cuculić live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 410 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Rijeka (115), Skrljevo (55), Kukuljanovo (40), Zagreb (20), and in Mrkopalj in Delnice area (20).

Outside Croatia

At least one family with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Cuculić (including: Cuculic , Cuculich , Cuculici and Cuculick ) is present in 12 countries on four continents. The family name "Cuculic " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Moldova , and small number of people in Uruguay. "Cuculich " is used by some 200 people in the United States and about 80 in Argentina. "Cuculici " is used by some 200 people in Romania and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Milorad Cuculić, Judita Cuculić, Patricia Cuculić, Zoran Cuculić, Vanja Cuculić, Slobodan Cuculić, Vladimir Cuculić, Emilija Cuculić, Ozren Cuculić, Dražen Cuculić, Miroslav Cuculić, Srećko Cuculić, Katica Cuculić, Rajna Cuculić, Mirjana Cuculić, Berislav Cuculić, Linda Cuculić, Radovan Cuculić, Vlado Cuculić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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