Surname Funes in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Funes families are generally Croats (from Nova Gradiska ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska and Pakrac.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Funes live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and two other places, mostly in Nova Gradiska (20), Zagreb (<10), Donja Obrijez (<5), Kovacevac (<5), and in Crikvenica (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Funes (including: Fuenes , Funess and Funnes ) is present in 62 countries worldwide. "Funess " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Matija Funes, Dario Funes, Nataša Funes, Vladimir Funes, Mladen Funes, Vlasta Funes, Mario Funes, Mirjana Funes, Petar Funes, Jelena Funes, Borislav Funes, Vera Funes, Vesna Funes, Branko Funes, Ksenija Funes, Aleksandra Funes, Goran Funes, Monika Funes, Marko Funes

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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