Surname Kuščević in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kuščević families are Croats (from the Island of Brac ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Brac and on the Island of Brac.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Kuščević live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and 7 other places, mostly in Nerezisca on the Island of Brac (40), Split (<10), Milna on the Island of Brac (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Supetar on the Island of Brac (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kuščević (including: Kuscevic , Kuscevich ) is present in 6 countries on four continents. The family name "Kuscevic " is used by some 500 people in Bolivia , about 200 in Chile , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dubravka Kuščević, Bojan Kuščević, Lovro Kuščević, Nenad Kuščević, Marina Kuščević, Karolina Kuščević, Katarina Kuščević, Stjepko Kuščević, Ljiljana Kuščević, Jelena Kuščević, Helena Kuščević, Ivo Kuščević, Lukša Kuščević, Natalija Kuščević, Renato Kuščević, Josip Kuščević, Nikola Kuščević, Gordan Kuščević, Berislava Kuščević

Mentions in sources

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

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