Surname Paškvan in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 180 people with faimily name Paškvan live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Rijeka (90), Hreljin (25), Zagreb (25), Mrkopalj in Delnice area (15), and in Kraljevica (10).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Paškvan (including: Paskvan , Passkvan ) is present in 10 countries on four continents. The family name "Paskvan " is used by some 500 people in the United States , about 300 in Argentina , and some 80 people in Peru. "Passkvan " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Saša Paškvan, Ljubomir Paškvan, Aristea Paškvan, Rudi Paškvan, Danijel Paškvan, Boris Paškvan, Sandra Paškvan, Zdravko Paškvan, Hinko Paškvan, Željko Paškvan, Željka Paškvan, Zoran Paškvan, Božidar Paškvan, Stjepan Paškvan, Stanko Paškvan, Ivan Paškvan, Oliver Paškvan, Branimir Paškvan, Arsen Paškvan

Mentions in sources

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

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