Surname Kočet in modern Croatia

Kočet 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 150 people with faimily name Kočet live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Varazdin (20), in Donja Voca (20) and Jelovec Vocanski (15) in Ivanec area, Zagreb (15), and in Rijeka Vocanska in Ivanec area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kočet (including: Kocet , Cochet , Kochet , Khochet , Cocset , Kotschet , Cocet and Koczet ) is present in 46 countries worldwide. The family name "Kocet " is used by some 100 people in France , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Indonesia.

Characteristic first names

Mijo Kočet, Toni Kočet, Zdenka Kočet, Dragutin Kočet, Krunoslav Kočet, Gordana Kočet, Tomo Kočet, Nenad Kočet, Marina Kočet, Stjepan Kočet, Andro Kočet, Dražen Kočet, Mihaela Kočet, Antun Kočet, Ivan Kočet, Anica Kočet, Tomislav Kočet, Mladen Kočet, Ksenija Kočet

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1926 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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