Surname Kojan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kojan families are Croats (from Dubrovnik area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and in Dubrovnik area. In Popovići in Dubrovnik area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Kojan.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Kojan live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in two Croatian counties, two cities and four other places, mostly in Popovici in Dubrovnik area (<10), Mokosica (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Kupari (<5) and Gruda (<5) in Dubrovnik area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Kojan (including: Kajan , Cojan , Koyan , Kolyan , Khojan , Kolyvan , Koyyan , Khoyan and Koian ) is present in 109 countries worldwide. "Khoyan " is used by small number of people in Kenya , small number in the United States , and small number of people in France. "Coyan " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 100 in France , and small number of people in Guatemala. "Kayann " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Pero Kojan, Antonia Kojan, Marija Kojan, Ane Kojan, Ana Kojan, Niko Kojan, Antun Kojan, Luce Kojan, Maro Kojan, Mato Kojan, Đuro Kojan, Pave Kojan, Nikola Kojan, Kate Kojan, Stane Kojan, Vlaho Kojan, Luka Kojan, Božo Kojan, Petar Kojan

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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