Surname Komes in modern Croatia

Komes families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ivanec area and in Varazdin.

Prevalence

About 420 people with faimily name Komes live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 420 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 53 other places, mostly in Varazdin (65), Donja Voca in Ivanec area (55), Zagreb (50), Koprivnica (35), and in Donja Visnjica (25).

Outside Croatia

Family name Komes (including: Comes , Coomes , Kommes , Commes , Comess , Komesh , Chomes , Komesz and Komess ) is present in 47 countries worldwide. The family name "Komes " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 300 in Papua New Guinea , and some 200 people in Thailand. "Komess " is used by few people in the United States. "Kommes " is used by some 100 people in the United States and small number in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Zvonko Komes, Stjepan Komes, Slavica Komes, Nenad Komes, Borislav Komes, Igor Komes, Draženka Komes, Ivan Komes, Sanja Komes, Lidija Komes, Vlatko Komes, Katica Komes, Zlatko Komes, Liljana Komes, Siniša Komes, Snježana Komes, Vlatka Komes, Bojan Komes, Želimir Komes

Mentions in sources

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

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