Surname Kućan in modern Croatia

Kućan families are Croats and they are mostly from Koprivnica area. According to some sources they are from the Island of Susak, and from the Island of Brac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac.

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Kućan live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 240 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Karlovac (20), Kutnjak in Koprivnica area (15), Rijeka (10), and in Sesvete (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (1) and Sweden (1).
Family name Kućan (including: Kucan , Kuchan , Kuchman , Kucsan , Kucheran , Kuckkan , Kutschan , Kuchlan , Kucian and Kuchhan ) is present in 47 countries worldwide. The family name "Kucan " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 300 in Germany , and some 200 people in Canada. "Kuchan " is used by some 300 people in the United States. "Kucsan " is used by some 100 people in the United States and small number in Hungary.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Kućan, Željko Kućan, Maja Kućan, Roman Kućan, Vladislav Kućan, Verica Kućan, Dragica Kućan, Dalibor Kućan, Igor Kućan, Đurđica Kućan, Marinka Kućan, Danijela Kućan, Marina Kućan, Aleksandar Kućan, Kristina Kućan, Nada Kućan, Željka Kućan, Nikola Kućan, Tomislav Kućan

Mentions in sources

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

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