Surname Kerkez.

  • Surname Kerkez in modern Croatia

    Kerkez families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Zagreb , often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sisak. In Prkosi in Cazins Region (Bosnia) every fourth inhabitant had the family name Kerkez.

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  • Prevalence

    About 80 people with faimily name Kerkez live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
    They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Topolovac (20), Zagreb (15), Crnkovec (10), Split (<10), and in Velika Gorica (<5).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Kerkez (including: Cerchez , Cherkez , Cerkez and Cherchez ) is present in 33 countries worldwide. The family name "Kerkez " is used by some 300 people in Turkey , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Germany. "Cerkez " is used by some 100 people in the United States and about 60 in Romania.

  • Characteristic first names

    Janko Kerkez, Martina Kerkez, Sandra Kerkez, Mladen Kerkez, Saša Kerkez, Igor Kerkez, Zorka Kerkez, Nada Kerkez, Zoran Kerkez, Nebojša Kerkez, Nikola Kerkez, Andrijana Kerkez, Milan Kerkez, Zdravko Kerkez, Tanja Kerkez, Branko Kerkez, Mirjana Kerkez, Nina Kerkez, Danijel Kerkez

  • Last name Kerkez around the globe

    See the countries where surname Kerkez is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1683 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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