Surname Lukša in modern Croatia

Lukša families are Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Prelog area and in Zagreb. In Donji Vidovec in Prelog area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Lukša.

Prevalence

About 430 people with faimily name Lukša live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 380 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 28 other places, mostly in Donji Vidovec in Prelog area (180), Zagreb (80), Virovitica (20), Koprivnica (20), and in Cakovec (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (5), Germany (4), the United States (1), and to Uruguay (1).
Family name Lukša (including: Luksa , Luksha , Luksza , Luchesa , Luchessa , Lukschal , Lucska , Lucsa , Lukksa and Luchsha ) is present in 37 countries worldwide. The family name "Luksa " is used by some 700 people in Lithuania , about 600 in Latvia , and some 400 people in the United States. "Luksza " is used by some 900 people in Poland , about 100 in the United States , and small number of people in Australia. "Lucska " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Darko Lukša, Kristina Lukša, Milan Lukša, Draženka Lukša, Bojan Lukša, Suzana Lukša, Mislav Lukša, Nives Lukša, Enidija Lukša, Stela Lukša, Robert Lukša, Dražen Lukša, Zvonko Lukša, Snježana Lukša, Marijan Lukša, Vjekoslav Lukša, Dragutin Lukša, Zlatko Lukša, Žaklin Lukša

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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