Surname Pokas in modern Croatia

Pokas families are Croats and they are mostly from Sisak area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak area and in Sisak. In Tedrovec in Dugo Selo area every second inhabitant had the family name Pokas.

Prevalence

About 310 people with faimily name Pokas live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 430 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 39 other places, mostly in Sisak (30), Mahovo in Sisak area (30), Zagreb (25), Ivanic-Grad (20), and in Desno Zeljezno in Sisak area (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pokas (including: Phocas , Phokas , Pokash , Pokass , Pocas , Pochas and Pocias ) is present in 31 countries worldwide. "Pocas " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Pochas " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Pocias " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Irena Pokas, Vesna Pokas, Dragutin Pokas, Zlata Pokas, Josip Pokas, Siniša Pokas, Snježana Pokas, Stjepan Pokas, Domagoj Pokas, Marijan Pokas, Igor Pokas, Damir Pokas, Nikolina Pokas, Anamarija Pokas, Milivoj Pokas, Želimir Pokas, Tihomir Pokas, Dubravko Pokas, Ana Pokas

Mentions in sources

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

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