Surname Keresman in modern Croatia

Keresman families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Samobor and in Slovenia. In Beder in Samobor every fifth inhabitant had the family name Keresman.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Keresman live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and 8 other places, mostly in Beder (20), Bobovica (10), Zagreb (<10), Samobor (<10), and in Sveta Nedelja in Samobor area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Keresman is present in four countries on two continents. The family name "Keresman " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Kereczman " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Anica Keresman, Josip Keresman, Ivica Keresman, Biserka Keresman, Blaženka Keresman, Dijana Keresman, Branko Keresman, Ana Keresman, Radovan Keresman, Slavko Keresman, Željko Keresman, Mirjana Keresman, Neven Keresman, Branka Keresman, Anita Keresman, Kristina Keresman, Vedran Keresman, Ivan Keresman, Veronika Keresman

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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