Surname Lukešić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Lukešić families are Croats (from Karlovac ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Lukešić live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Karlovac (15), Zagreb (15), Mahicno (10), Opatija (<5), and in Ludbreg (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Lukešić (including: Lukesic , Luchesic ) is present in 6 countries on four continents. The family name "Lukesic " is used by some 200 people in Brazil and about 70 in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željka Lukešić, Marko Lukešić, Aida Lukešić, Antonija Lukešić, Marijan Lukešić, Drago Lukešić, Josip Lukešić, Ana Lukešić, Mladen Lukešić, Hilda Lukešić, Roze Lukešić, Zdenko Lukešić, Stjepan Lukešić, Marina Lukešić, Helena Lukešić, Vilko Lukešić, Draga Lukešić, Dragica Lukešić, Zlatko Lukešić

Mentions in sources

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

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