Surname Kučina in modern Croatia

Kučina families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdinske Toplice. According to some sources they are from Kucina near Split. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdinske Toplice and Zadar. In Gornja Poljana in Varazdinske Toplice every tenth inhabitant had the family name Kučina.

Prevalence

About 210 people with faimily name Kučina live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Nevidjane on the Island of Pasman (30), Rijeka (15), Zagreb (10), Zadar (10), and in Tuhovec (10).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (2), Germany (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Kučina (including: Kuchina , Kucina , Kuchkina , Kucherina , Kuchmina , Kuchurina , Kuchirina , Kuchinina , Kucyna and Kuzzina ) is present in 52 countries worldwide. "Kucyna " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Cucina " is used by some 600 people in Italy , about 100 in the United States , and some 100 people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Dušan Kučina, Vladimir Kučina, Jasminka Kučina, Romano Kučina, Saša Kučina, Mirta Kučina, Mirjana Kučina, Slavko Kučina, Zvonimir Kučina, Anka Kučina, Igor Kučina, Siniša Kučina, Zlatko Kučina, Josip Kučina, Tihomir Kučina, Joško Kučina, Mirko Kučina, Ljiljana Kučina, Darko Kučina

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1943 in source Directorium ARCHI-DIOECESI ZAGREBIENSI.

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