Surname Kakša in modern Croatia

Kakša families are Croats and they are mostly from Grubisno Polje. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Bjelovar.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Kakša live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Bjelovar (20), Otrovanec in Djurdjevac area (10), Split (<5), and in Virovitica (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kakša (including: Kaksa , Kachusha , Kachasa , Kaksha , Kachisa , Kachesa , Kahksha , Khaksa and Chaksha ) is present in 21 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Zoran Kakša, Mladen Kakša, Marica Kakša, Ljubica Kakša, Davor Kakša, Jasmina Kakša, Vesna Kakša, Emil Kakša, Dražen Kakša, Mirko Kakša, Marko Kakša, Marijan Kakša, Branka Kakša, Amela Kakša, Tomislav Kakša, Maja Kakša, Ivan Kakša, Martina Kakša, Danijel Kakša

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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