Surname Merkaš.

  • Surname Merkaš in modern Croatia

    Merkaš families are Croats and they are mostly from Zabok area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Krapina. In places Komor Začretski and Brezova in Zabok area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Merkaš.

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  • Prevalence

    About 660 people with faimily name Merkaš live in Croatia today, in 260 households. There were 560 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 65 other places, mostly in Zagreb (205), Lepajci (55), in Komor Zacretski (35) and Sekirisce (30) in Zabok area, and in Donja Semnica (25).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Merkaš (including: Merkas , Mercas ) is present in 10 countries on two continents.

  • Characteristic first names

    Sonja Merkaš, Stjepan Merkaš, Zvonko Merkaš, Dunja Merkaš, Miljenko Merkaš, Mirica Merkaš, Ivan Merkaš, Larisa Merkaš, Dražen Merkaš, Davor Merkaš, Snježana Merkaš, Josip Merkaš, Nenad Merkaš, Slavko Merkaš, Vlado Merkaš, Jaka Merkaš, Robert Merkaš, Mladen Merkaš, Lana Merkaš

  • Last name Merkaš around the globe

    See the countries where surname Merkaš is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

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

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