Surname Roca in modern Croatia

Roca families are Croats and they are mostly from Vodice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik and Vodice.

Prevalence

About 240 people with faimily name Roca live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Vodice (155), Zagreb (55), Sibenik (15), Vukovar (<10), and in Split (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Roca (including: Rocha , Roza , Rocca , Rozza , Roccia , Roccha , Rochaa , Rotza and Rocah ) is present in 151 countries worldwide. "Rotza " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Rocah " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Rozsa " is used by some 1000 people in Hungary , about 700 in the United States , and some 90 people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Nikolina Roca, Josip Roca, Pavao Roca, Marija Roca, Ivan Roca, Tanja Roca, Mira Roca, Margita Roca, Romeo Roca, Marko Roca, Ante Roca, Martina Roca, Jasmina Roca, Anita Roca, Roko Roca, Zlatko Roca, Goran Roca, Krste Roca, Ljubomir Roca

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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