Surname Dean in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Dean families are Croats (from Makarska area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sibenik.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Dean live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Velika Gorica (<10), Drenovci in Zupanja area (<10), Vodice (<5), and in Split (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Dean (including: DeHaan , Dehaan , Dehan , Deehan , Dehahn , Deann , Deeran , Deahn and Deean ) is present in 153 countries worldwide. The family name "Dean " is used by some 200000 people in the United States , about 20000 in Australia , and some 10000 people in Great Britain. "Deann " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 90 in Viet Nam , and small number of people in Sweden. "Deahn " is used by some 70 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Andrej Dean, Ivo Dean, Zdravka Dean, Luiđa Dean, Iva Dean, Josip Dean, Željeni Dean, Zdravko Dean, Marko Dean, Dunja Dean, Nikolina Dean, Ante Dean, Tončika Dean, Damir Dean, Ružica Dean, Jasenka Dean, Vladimir Dean, Toni Dean, Ivica Dean

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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