Surname Kožul in modern Croatia

Kožul families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina (Siroki Brijeg). According to some sources they are from Zadar area (village Kozlovac, Benkovac), Imotski area (Zmijavci), and rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Siroki Brijeg area) and in North Herzegovina (Konjic area). In Turčinovići in Herzegovina every third inhabitant had the family name Kožul.

Prevalence

About 1100 people with faimily name Kožul live in Croatia today, in 480 households. There were 410 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 53 cities and 90 other places, mostly in Zagreb (265), Zadar (95), Slavonski Brod (70), Rijeka (60), and in Razanac in Nin area (60).

Outside Croatia

At least 19 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (3), Germany (3), the United Kingdom (2), the United States (2), Switzerland (2), Austria (2), Norway (1), Sweden (1), Brazil (1), France (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Kožul (including: Kozul , Kozhul ) is present in 26 countries worldwide. The family name "Kozul " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 200 in Sierra Leone , and some 200 people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Anto Kožul, Valter Kožul, Mile Kožul, Ivica Kožul, Ivan Kožul, Dario Kožul, Marko Kožul, Karlo Kožul, Branko Kožul, Božana Kožul, Zoran Kožul, Snježana Kožul, Nenad Kožul, Marijana Kožul, Neven Kožul, Sanja Kožul, Mirta Kožul, Eduard Kožul, Marijo Kožul

Mentions in sources

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

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