Surname Kožina in modern Croatia

Kožina families are Croats and they are mostly from Zapresic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Nova Gradiska. In Bregovljana in Zapresic area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Kožina.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Kožina live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Donja Pusca in Zapresic area (15), Nova Gradiska (<10), Zapresic (<5), and in Kupinecki Kraljevec (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kožina (including: Kozina , Kozhina , Khozina , Kozyna , Khozhina , Khozinah , Kohzina , Kozinna , Kozinah and Kozhkina ) is present in 52 countries worldwide. "Kohzina " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zdenko Kožina, Vlatka Kožina, Darko Kožina, Višnja Kožina, Ankica Kožina, Davor Kožina, Josip Kožina, Zlatko Kožina, Danijel Kožina, Dijana Kožina, Vesna Kožina, Branko Kožina, Ivan Kožina, Vladimir Kožina, Damir Kožina, Marija Kožina, Tihomir Kožina, Matija Kožina, Zdravko Kožina

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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