Surname Mance in modern Croatia

Mance families are Croats and they are mostly from Delnice area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Bukov Vrh in Delnice area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Mance.

Prevalence

About 740 people with faimily name Mance live in Croatia today, in 340 households. There were 780 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 40 cities and 76 other places, mostly in Zagreb (180), Rijeka (105), Karlovac (45), and in Skrad (30) and Ravna Gora (25) in Delnice area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Mance (including: Manche , Mhanze , Manze , Manchee , Manchhe and Mantze ) is present in 64 countries worldwide. The family name "Mance " is used by some 5000 people in the Philippines , about 5000 in the United States , and some 1000 people in Albania. "Manze " is used by some 200 people in Zambia , about 80 in the United States , and small number of people in Great Britain. "Manche " is used by some 1000 people in France , about 400 in the United States , and some 200 people in Peru.

Characteristic first names

Zdenko Mance, Mladen Mance, Tomislav Mance, Davor Mance, Berislav Mance, Hinko Mance, Damir Mance, Dražen Mance, Kristina Mance, Daromir Mance, Želimir Mance, Jasenka Mance, Bojan Mance, Krešimir Mance, Zlatko Mance, Anton Mance, Milena Mance, Ljiljana Mance, Klaudio Mance

Mentions in sources

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

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