Surname Market in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Market families are Croats (from the Island of Mljet ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Mljet and in Dubrovnik. In Babino Polje on the Island of Mljet every tenth inhabitant had the family name Market.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Market live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and 6 other places, mostly in Babino Polje on the Island of Mljet (25), Zagreb (15), Polace on the Island of Mljet (10), Potomje on the Peljesac peninsula (<10), and in Nova Mokosica (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Market (including: Marcet , Marchet , Marchuet , Marchett , Markett , Marcket , Marceth , Marcheret and Marcett ) is present in 40 countries worldwide. The family name "Market " is used by some 1000 people in the United States , about 100 in Germany , and some 100 people in Zimbabwe. "Marcket " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Markett " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Turkey.

Characteristic first names

Miho Market, Nikola Market, Ivan Market, Alena Market, Đivo Market, Iva Market, Antun Market, Nikica Market, Mato Market, Petar Market, Frano Market, Franjo Market, Anđelka Market, Ivana Market, Jelena Market, Marko Market, Marija Market, Vlaho Market, Bruno Market

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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