Surname Kuko in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kuko families are Croats (from Split ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj area and in Split. In Donji Muć in Sinj area every fiftieth inhabitant had the family name Kuko.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Kuko live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Split (20), Zrnovnica (<10), Zagreb (<5), Solin (<5), and in Mastrinka (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kuko (including: Kucko , Kuchko , Cuko , Kuqo , Kukko , Kukho , Kukoh , Kuco and Kukoo ) is present in 85 countries worldwide. "Kucko " is used by some 1000 people in Poland , about 400 in Slovakia , and some 400 people in the United States. "Kukoo " is used by few people in the United States. "Kuqo " is used by some 600 people in Albania , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Alen Kuko, Ivana Kuko, Hrvatka Kuko, Maja Kuko, Kristijan Kuko, Siniša Kuko, Kristina Kuko, Ljubomir Kuko, Mate Kuko, Nada Kuko, Tatjana Kuko, Marijana Kuko, Mario Kuko, Katarina Kuko, Frane Kuko, Ismet Kuko, Ana Kuko, Ivan Kuko, Marija Kuko

Mentions in sources

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

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