Surname Kuzma in modern Croatia

Kuzma families are Croats and they are mostly from Pazin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Bjelovar.

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Kuzma live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Rakotule in Pazin area (15), Rijeka (10), Osijek (10), Ziskovec (<10), and in Rajic (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least ten families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (3), Switzerland (3), France (2), Austria (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Kuzma (including: Cuzma , Chuzhma and Kuzhma ) is present in 48 countries worldwide. The family name "Kuzma " is used by some 10000 people in Poland , about 8000 in Ukraine , and some 8000 people in the United States. "Cuzma " is used by some 100 people in Peru , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Brazil , small number of people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Zdenka Kuzma, Eduard Kuzma, Vlatkica Kuzma, Goran Kuzma, Tomislav Kuzma, Sandra Kuzma, Dalibor Kuzma, Verica Kuzma, Vesna Kuzma, Miroslav Kuzma, Kristijan Kuzma, Ivan Kuzma, Branko Kuzma, Nikolina Kuzma, Željko Kuzma, Anđelka Kuzma, Blaženka Kuzma, Darko Kuzma, Rozita Kuzma

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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