Surname Mašće in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Mašće live in Croatia today, in 16 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Trogir (15), Seget Donji in Trogir area (10), Mali Losinj on the Island of Losinj (<10), Split (<10), and in Seget Vranjica in Trogir area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Mašće (including: Masche , Maschke , Masce , Massache , Maschue , Mashiche , Mascke , Mascek , Mascen and Mashache ) is present in 32 countries worldwide. The family name "Masce " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Masche " is used by some 900 people in Germany , about 300 in the United States , and some 200 people in Brazil. "Maschke " is used by some 5000 people in Germany , about 700 in the United States , and some 400 people in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Mirjana Mašće, Ivan Mašće, Petra Mašće, Milan Mašće, Toni Mašće, Vojko Mašće, Andjelka Mašće, Žaklina Mašće, Marko Mašće, Duje Mašće, Rose Mašće, Sonja Mašće, Boris Mašće, Sanja Mašće, Joško Mašće, Desa Mašće, Luca Mašće, Neda Mašće, Miroslava Mašće

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over fifty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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