Surname Cukon in modern Croatia

Cukon families are Croats and they are mostly from Pula area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Pula area. In places Veliki Vareški and Medulin in Pula area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Cukon.

Prevalence

About 260 people with faimily name Cukon live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 360 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Pula (115), in Medulin (65) and Pomer (30) in Pula area, Zagreb (20), and in Veliki Vareski in Pula area (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least 15 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (4), Argentina (4), Australia (4), Canada (2), and to Germany (1).
Family name Cukon (including: Chuchon , Chuckon , Cucheron , Cuchon and Zukon ) is present in 17 countries on four continents. The family name "Cukon " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Slovakia , and small number of people in Austria. "Chuchon " is used by some 3000 people in Peru , small number in Spain , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Davor Cukon, Zdravka Cukon, Boris Cukon, Slavko Cukon, Milenko Cukon, Ana Cukon, Zdravko Cukon, Eduard Cukon, Danijela Cukon, Željko Cukon, Olga Cukon, Viktor Cukon, Rina Cukon, Saša Cukon, Edo Cukon, Marko Cukon, Jolanda Cukon, Zoran Cukon, Davorin Cukon

Mentions in sources

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

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