Surname Margan in modern Croatia

Margan families are Croats and they are mostly from Rijeka. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 180 people with faimily name Margan live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Rijeka (130), Zagreb (10), Split (<10), Sibenik (<10), and in Skrljevo (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (2), the United States (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Margan is present in 36 countries worldwide. The family name "Margan " is used by some 800 people in Romania , about 500 in the United States , and some 200 people in Sudan.

Characteristic first names

Anamarija Margan, Albin Margan, Mišel Margan, Loris Margan, Hrvoje Margan, Damir Margan, Josip Margan, Danijela Margan, Ljiljana Margan, Hicela Margan, Dalibor Margan, Dejan Margan, Marinko Margan, Veronika Margan, Danijel Margan, Bernarda Margan, Iva Margan, Robert Margan, Antica Margan

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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