Surname Pros in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Pros live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Koprivnica (10), Zdala in Djurdjevac area (<10), Rijeka (<10), and in Bjelovar (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pros (including: Peros , Pross , Proos , Prohs , Perosh , Procz , Prosh and Phros ) is present in 55 countries worldwide. The family name "Pros " is used by some 800 people in Spain , about 300 in Czech Republic , and some 300 people in the United States. "Pross " is used by some 1000 people in Germany , about 800 in the United States , and some 400 people in Argentina. "Proos " is used by some 200 people in Estonia , about 200 in the United States , and some 100 people in the Netherlands.

Characteristic first names

Dražen Pros, Nenad Pros, Ivica Pros, Marijan Pros, Nikola Pros, Miroslav Pros, Ivan Pros, Andrija Pros, Štefica Pros, Jesenka Pros, Darko Pros, Milan Pros, Vladimir Pros, Andrea Pros, Jasna Pros, Martin Pros, Rasima Pros, Franjo Pros, Marija Pros

Mentions in sources

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

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