In Croatia, Kneš families are predominantly Croats (from Slavonski Brod ), rarely Italians (from Pula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Slavonski Brod area.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Kneš live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only four naselja i to in Slavonski Brod (<10), Pula (<5), and in Grgurevici (<5) and Celikovici (<5) in Slavonski Brod area.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1925 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.