Surname Mučan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Mučan families are generally Croats (from Vrbovec area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovec area and in Bjelovar. In Gornji Vukšinac in Vrbovec area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Mučan.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Mučan live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Gornji Vuksinac in Vrbovec area (<5), Sesvete (<5), Dubrava in Vrbovec area (<5), and in Crna Mlaka (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Mučan (including: Mucan , Muchan , Muckan , Muchsan , Muchdian , Muchwan , Muchyan , Muchayan , Muchiban and Muchman ) is present in 18 countries worldwide. "Muchman " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Franjo Mučan, Stjepan Mučan, Zdenka Mučan, Ivan Mučan, Nikola Mučan, Natalija Mučan, Jelena Mučan, Marija Mučan, Darko Mučan, Mara Mučan, Luka Mučan, Milka Mučan, Zora Mučan, Barbara Mučan, Josip Mučan, Simeuna Mučan, Nevenka Mučan, Mato Mučan, Đurđica Mučan

Mentions in sources

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

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