Surname Kapitan in modern Croatia

Kapitan families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Zlatar area.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Kapitan live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Petkovec Toplicki (15), Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (10), Krapinica in Zlatar area (10), and in Varazdinske Toplice (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kapitan (including: Capitan , Kapitán , Kapitaan , Kappithan and Kapithan ) is present in 67 countries worldwide. The family name "Kapitan " is used by some 6000 people in Indonesia , about 1000 in the United States , and some 600 people in Poland.

Characteristic first names

Miroslav Kapitan, Juraj Kapitan, Marijan Kapitan, Jurica Kapitan, Domagoj Kapitan, Miljenko Kapitan, Igor Kapitan, Mirjana Kapitan, Dubravko Kapitan, Kristian Kapitan, Rudolf Kapitan, Damir Kapitan, Martina Kapitan, Ivan Kapitan, Sunčica Kapitan, Tomislav Kapitan, Marko Kapitan, Stjepan Kapitan, Slobodan Kapitan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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