Surname Kocijan in modern Croatia

Kocijan families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Cakovec. In Lun on the Island of Pag every sixth inhabitant had the family name Kocijan.

Prevalence

About 1200 people with faimily name Kocijan live in Croatia today, in 510 households. There were 1100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 50 cities and 135 other places, mostly in Varazdin (145), Zagreb (120), Cakovec (65), Nedelisce in Cakovec area (50), and in Sracinec in Varazdin area (40).

Outside Croatia

At least 27 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (9), Germany (7), Sweden (3), Australia (3), Switzerland (2), Austria (2), and to Canada (1).
Family name Kocijan (including: Koziyan , Kociyan , Kochiyan and Kozilyan ) is present in 15 countries worldwide. The family name "Kocijan " is used by some 70 people in the United States , small number in Australia , and small number of people in Venezuela. "Kociyan " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Aleksa Kocijan, Franjo Kocijan, Slobodan Kocijan, Oliver Kocijan, Ivna Kocijan, Gordana Kocijan, Dražen Kocijan, Željko Kocijan, Irena Kocijan, Ivan Kocijan, Marko Kocijan, Martina Kocijan, Vjekoslava Kocijan, Robert Kocijan, Rudolf Kocijan, Bojan Kocijan, Tomislav Kocijan, Pero Kocijan, Jasminka Kocijan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1679 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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