Surname Mendeš in modern Croatia

Mendeš families are Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Brcko area) and in Makarska.

Prevalence

About 380 people with faimily name Mendeš live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Vinkovci (60), Makarska (30), Nijemci in Vinkovci area (30), and in Glavina Donja (25).

Outside Croatia

Family name Mendeš (including: Mendes , Mendesh , Mendess , Mendees , Menndes , Meendes , Menddes , Mmendes and Mendesz ) is present in 144 countries worldwide. "Mendesh " is used by some 100 people in Kazakhstan , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Branimir Mendeš, Ivona Mendeš, Damir Mendeš, Mijo Mendeš, Željko Mendeš, Milan Mendeš, Ivan Mendeš, Ivo Mendeš, Mirko Mendeš, Miroslav Mendeš, Kata Mendeš, Marin Mendeš, Barbara Mendeš, Irena Mendeš, Dragomir Mendeš, Josip Mendeš, Marina Mendeš, Antonia Mendeš, Marica Mendeš

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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