Surname Percan in modern Croatia

Percan families are Croats and they are mostly from Pula area. According to some sources vuku korijene from Španjolska. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Pula area. In Rakalj in Pula area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Percan.

Prevalence

About 270 people with faimily name Percan live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 420 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Pula (150), in Krnica (25) and Rakalj (<10) in Pula area, Fazana (<10), and in Umag (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least 22 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (9), Sweden (4), Germany (3), Australia (2), France (2), Argentina (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Percan (including: Perzan , Perzhan and Perchan ) is present in 23 countries worldwide. "Perzan " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 100 in Argentina , and some 50 people in Canada , some 50 people in Poland. "Perchan " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dunja Percan, Aldo Percan, Melani Percan, Radmila Percan, Ingrid Percan, Milan Percan, Robert Percan, Anton Percan, Davor Percan, Tihomir Percan, Denis Percan, Dean Percan, Biserka Percan, Elvis Percan, Esma Percan, Josip Percan, Romana Percan, Boris Percan, Katrin Percan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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