Surname Kušan in modern Croatia

Kušan families are Croats and they are mostly from Petrinja area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak and Zabok. In Lug Zabočki in Zabok every third inhabitant had the family name Kušan.

Prevalence

About 400 people with faimily name Kušan live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 590 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 43 other places, mostly in Lug Zabocki (70), Zagreb (60), Sisak (25), Karlovac (20), and in Letovanic in Petrinja area (20).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (7), the United States (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Kušan (including: Kushan , Kusan , Kussman , Kushman , Kushtan , Khusan , Kussan , Kuschan , Kusthan and Kuesan ) is present in 60 countries worldwide. The family name "Kusan " is used by some 300 people in Turkey , about 100 in the United States , and some 80 people in Indonesia. "Kuschan " is used by small number of people in Ukraine , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Germany. "Kuesan " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vladimir Kušan, Tomislav Kušan, Nenad Kušan, Ivana Kušan, Vjekoslav Kušan, Dora Kušan, Milan Kušan, Mirna Kušan, Zdenko Kušan, Željka Kušan, Lovorka Kušan, Alojz Kušan, Željko Kušan, Irena Kušan, Josip Kušan, Jasminka Kušan, Marina Kušan, Robert Kušan, Jakša Kušan

Mentions in sources

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

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