Surname Eškinja in modern Croatia

Eškinja families are Croats and they are mostly from Biograd na Moru area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and in Biograd na moru area. In Sveti Filip i Jakov in Biograd na moru area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Eškinja.

Prevalence

About 310 people with faimily name Eškinja live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Sveti Filip i Jakov in Biograd na moru area (185), Biograd na moru (80), Rijeka (25), Zagreb (15), and in Zadar (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Eškinja is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Neven Eškinja, Maja Eškinja, Darko Eškinja, Igor Eškinja, Ivan Eškinja, Ivica Eškinja, Ivo Eškinja, Sabina Eškinja, Vesna Eškinja, Gordana Eškinja, Leon Eškinja, Filka Eškinja, Ljiljana Eškinja, Negoslav Eškinja, Zdravko Eškinja, Zvonimir Eškinja, Lucio Eškinja, Šime Eškinja, Jagoda Eškinja

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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