Surname Roce in modern Croatia

Roce families are Croats and they are mostly from Labin area and according to some sources from village Gorica (Sutivanac nad Rasom). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Labin area. In Gorica in Labin area every second inhabitant had the family name Roce.

Prevalence

About 170 people with faimily name Roce live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Gorica in Labin area (65), Pula (40), Sutivanac in Labin area (15), and in Balici I (15) and Zminj (<10) in Pazin area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Roce (including: Roche , Roze , Rocche , Rooze , Rozee , Rozze , Rochee , Rocheh and Rotze ) is present in 143 countries worldwide. "Roche " is used by some 50000 people in France , about 30000 in the United States , and some 5000 people in Australia. "Rochee " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Rocheh " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Marino Roce, Gracijano Roce, Boris Roce, Zlatko Roce, Damir Roce, Radovan Roce, David Roce, Tatjana Roce, Elena Roce, Davor Roce, Aldo Roce, Nevenka Roce, Renata Roce, Dražen Roce, Marko Roce, Vesna Roce, Nevia Roce, Mauricio Roce, Bruno Roce

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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