Surname Kaštelan in modern Croatia

Kaštelan families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Rab. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Rab and in Rijeka.

Prevalence

About 460 people with faimily name Kaštelan live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 24 cities and 28 other places, mostly in Barbat na Rabu on the Island of Rab (85), Zagreb (45), Omis (45), Rijeka (40), and in Split (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 19 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (9), Germany (5), Australia (2), Austria (1), New Zealand (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Kaštelan (including: Castelan , Kastelan , Castellan , Kasztelan , Kashtelan and Kastellan ) is present in 43 countries worldwide. The family name "Kastelan " is used by some 90 people in the United States , about 60 in Australia , and small number of people in Germany. "Castelan " is used by some 30000 people in Mexico , about 2000 in Brazil , and some 2000 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Darko Kaštelan, Snježana Kaštelan, Marija Kaštelan, Andrea Kaštelan, Ana Kaštelan, Lada Kaštelan, Vladimir Kaštelan, Andrija Kaštelan, Antonija Kaštelan, Željko Kaštelan, Ratka Kaštelan, Helena Kaštelan, Ljiljana Kaštelan, Danijel Kaštelan, Boris Kaštelan, Frano Kaštelan, Hrvoje Kaštelan, Dušan Kaštelan, Renata Kaštelan

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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