Surname Kosjek in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kosjek families are Croats (from Bosnian Posavina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Bosanian Posavina (Banovici area).

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Kosjek live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in four Croatian cities only: in Zagreb (15), Bukovcak (<10), Rijeka (<5), and in Rovinj (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kosjek (including: Kosiek , Kossieck and Kosieck ) is present in 15 countries on three continents. "Kosiek " is used by some 400 people in Poland , about 300 in the United States , and some 100 people in Germany. "Kosieck " is used by few people in the United States. "Kossieck " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivica Kosjek, Danijel Kosjek, Mladen Kosjek, Nikola Kosjek, Štefica Kosjek, Barbara Kosjek, Maks Kosjek, Stjepan Kosjek, Ivan Kosjek, Zorica Kosjek, Kristijan Kosjek, Irena Kosjek, Branka Kosjek, Tihomir Kosjek, Božidar Kosjek, Ljubica Kosjek, Dragica Kosjek, Suzana Kosjek, Martin Kosjek

Mentions in sources

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

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