Surname Kogej in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kogej families are predominantly Croats (from Labin area ), rarely Slovenes (from Slovenia ), and barely Bosniaks (from Rijeka ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rijeka.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Kogej live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Pula (<10), Rijeka (<5), Rasa in Labin area (<5), and in Kastav (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kogej (including: Koghee , Kogey and Kogei ) is present in 18 countries worldwide. "Kogei " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Igor Kogej, Dalibor Kogej, Marijan Kogej, Milodar Kogej, Andreja Kogej, Emil Kogej, Andrea Kogej, Mirjana Kogej, Željka Kogej, Ljerka Kogej, Arifa Kogej, Jasna Kogej, Mina Kogej, Zvonko Kogej, Biljana Kogej, Lorena Kogej, Ivana Kogej, Bojan Kogej, Radovan Kogej

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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