Surname Dudas in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Dudas families are generally Croats (from Duga Resa area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Duga Resa area and in Karlovac.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Dudas live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in four Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Dubravcani (15) and Skupica (<5) in Duga Resa area, Petrakovo Brdo (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Porec (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Dudas (including: Dudash , Dhudas , Dudás and Dudasz ) is present in 48 countries worldwide. The family name "Dudas " is used by some 30000 people in Hungary , about 8000 in Romania , and some 8000 people in the United States. "Dudash " is used by some 2000 people in the United States , about 600 in Ukraine , and some 100 people in Russian Federation.

Characteristic first names

Attila Dudas, Darko Dudas, Neven Dudas, Denis Dudas, Alen Dudas, Juliana Dudas, Nikola Dudas, Anđelka Dudas, Josip Dudas, Dario Dudas, Istvan Dudas, Marijan Dudas, Ivan Dudas, Ankica Dudas, Biserka Dudas, Vladimir Dudas, Irena Dudas, Marija Dudas, Hrvoje Dudas

Mentions in sources

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

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