Surname Jakovčić in modern Croatia

Jakovčić families are Croats and they are mostly from Duga Resa area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Karlovac. In Jakovci Netretićki in Duga Resa area every second inhabitant had the family name Jakovčić.

Prevalence

About 210 people with faimily name Jakovčić live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 340 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Kraljevica (20), Rijeka (15), Valkarin (15), and in Porec (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 17 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (8), Australia (5), Austria (1), Canada (1), Germany (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Jakovčić is present in 10 countries on three continents. The family name "Jakovcic " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 60 in Canada , and small number of people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Jakovčić, Jugo Jakovčić, Mladen Jakovčić, Krešimir Jakovčić, Martina Jakovčić, Josip Jakovčić, Tomislav Jakovčić, Tonći Jakovčić, Velibor Jakovčić, Vjekoslav Jakovčić, Ivor Jakovčić, Zvonimir Jakovčić, Darko Jakovčić, Ana Jakovčić, Livio Jakovčić, Danijel Jakovčić, Dragan Jakovčić, Aljoša Jakovčić, Denis Jakovčić

Mentions in sources

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

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