Surname Kožuh in modern Croatia

Kožuh families are Croats and they are mostly from Petrinja. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Petrinja and Zagreb. In places Novi Farkašić and Graberje in Petrinja every ninth inhabitant had the family name Kožuh.

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Kožuh live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Petrinja (20), Graberje (15), Pula (<10), and in Split (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), the United States (1), Australia (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Kožuh (including: Kozuh , Kozuch , Kozhuh , Kozsuch , Kozhuch and Kozuchi ) is present in 24 countries worldwide. The family name "Kozuh " is used by some 100 people in the United States. "Kozuch " is used by some 1000 people in Poland , about 700 in the United States , and some 200 people in Germany. "Kozsuch " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Hungary.

Characteristic first names

Zoran Kožuh, Darko Kožuh, Davor Kožuh, Miroslav Kožuh, Stjepan Kožuh, Branka Kožuh, Vlado Kožuh, Ivica Kožuh, Josip Kožuh, Tomica Kožuh, Mateja Kožuh, Siniša Kožuh, Mirjana Kožuh, Tomislav Kožuh, Jelena Kožuh, Mirko Kožuh, Gordan Kožuh, Marijan Kožuh, Nikolina Kožuh

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1938 in source Phone Book - Zagreb 1938.

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