Surname Krišković in modern Croatia

Krišković families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Vinodolski. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Novi Vinodolski. In Mundanije on the Island of Rab every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Krišković.

Prevalence

About 190 people with faimily name Krišković live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 240 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Novi Vinodolski (45), Belisce (25), Zagreb (25), Palit on the Island of Rab (25), and in Rijeka (20).

Outside Croatia

At least ten families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (4), Canada (2), Germany (2), Argentina (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Krišković (including: Kriskovic , Kriskovich , Kriscovich and Krishkovich ) is present in 18 countries worldwide. The family name "Kriskovic " is used by some 60 people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number of people in Brazil. "Kriskovich " is used by some 300 people in Paraguay , about 100 in the United States , and some 90 people in Argentina. "Kriscovich " is used by small number of people in Argentina and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zdenka Krišković, Arijana Krišković, Dubravka Krišković, Damir Krišković, Nedo Krišković, Božidar Krišković, Anita Krišković, Marijana Krišković, Zoran Krišković, Ivan Krišković, Đurđica Krišković, Silvano Krišković, Miroslav Krišković, Sandra Krišković, Mario Krišković, Ira Krišković, Dunja Krišković, Martino Krišković, Danijela Krišković

Mentions in sources

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

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