Surname Kulfa in modern Croatia

Kulfa families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zlatar.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Kulfa live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties and 7 other places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Donje Jesenje in Krapina area (15), Zlatar (10), Lobor in Zlatar area (10), and in Zapresic (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kulfa (including: Khulfa , Chulfa , Khulfah , Culfa and Kulfah ) is present in 12 countries on four continents. "Culfa " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivica Kulfa, Mladen Kulfa, Marina Kulfa, Martina Kulfa, Željko Kulfa, Jasminka Kulfa, Tomica Kulfa, Marija Kulfa, Danijel Kulfa, Tomislav Kulfa, Senka Kulfa, Dražen Kulfa, Ivan Kulfa, Dragutin Kulfa, Damir Kulfa, Ivana Kulfa, Anita Kulfa, Marcel Kulfa, Štefica Kulfa

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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