Surname Kučan in modern Croatia

Kučan families are Croats and they are mostly from Kraljevica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 480 people with faimily name Kučan live in Croatia today, in 240 households. There were 570 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 37 cities and 54 other places, mostly in Rijeka (55), Zagreb (45), Hreljin (45), Kraljevica (25), and in Koprivnica (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 19 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (6), Argentina (5), Canada (5), and to Australia (3).
Family name Kučan (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

Edi Kučan, Damir Kučan, Rudolf Kučan, Branko Kučan, Dražen Kučan, Boris Kučan, Ivanka Kučan, Dragutin Kučan, Marta Kučan, Željko Kučan, Karlo Kučan, Maja Kučan, Bojan Kučan, Bruno Kučan, Jasna Kučan, Viktorija Kučan, Emil Kučan, Jadranka Kučan, Ivka Kučan

Mentions in sources

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

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