Surname Kozina in modern Croatia

Kozina families are Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. According to some sources they are from Herzegovina (Ljubuski). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Derventa area) and in Middle Bosnia (Travnik area). In Bijača in Herzegovina every fourth inhabitant had the family name Kozina.

Prevalence

About 1300 people with faimily name Kozina live in Croatia today, in 510 households. There were 540 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 59 cities and 99 other places, mostly in Zagreb (310), Metkovic (145), Sesvete (95), Slavonski Brod (60), and in Split (55).

Outside Croatia

At least 15 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (6), Germany (4), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Argentina (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Kozina (including: Kozhina , Khozina , Kozyna , Khozhina , Khozinah , Kozhyna , Kozinna , Kohzina and Kozinah ) is present in 52 countries worldwide. "Kohzina " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Suzana Kozina, Goran Kozina, Bruno Kozina, Bernard Kozina, Vladimir Kozina, Ivan Kozina, Andrija Kozina, Mirko Kozina, Zlatko Kozina, Boško Kozina, Melita Kozina, Tajana Kozina, Marija Kozina, Jago Kozina, Anto Kozina, Damir Kozina, Josip Kozina, Miroslav Kozina, Predrag Kozina

Mentions in sources

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

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