Surname Kučinić in modern Croatia

Kučinić families are Croats and they are mostly from Slunj area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ogulin and Karlovac. In places Ponor and Batnoga in Slunj area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Kučinić.

Prevalence

About 440 people with faimily name Kučinić live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 450 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 34 cities and 45 other places, mostly in Ogulin (100), Karlovac (90), Zagreb (55), Batnoga in Slunj area (20), and in Belajske Poljice in Duga Resa area (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 15 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (5), Germany (5), Australia (3), and to Switzerland (2).
Family name Kučinić (including: Kucinic , Kucinich , Kuchinic , Kuchinick and Kucinick ) is present in 10 countries worldwide. The family name "Kucinic " is used by some 200 people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Canada. "Kuchinic " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Kucinich " is used by some 80 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mladen Kučinić, Ivan Kučinić, Branko Kučinić, Željko Kučinić, Robert Kučinić, Tomislav Kučinić, Denis Kučinić, Krešimir Kučinić, Josip Kučinić, Krunoslav Kučinić, Martina Kučinić, Goran Kučinić, Vesna Kučinić, Daniela Kučinić, Antonija Kučinić, Mario Kučinić, Siniša Kučinić, Vedran Kučinić, Tihomir Kučinić

Mentions in sources

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

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