Surname Rosso in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Rosso families are Croats (from the Island of Hvar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and on the Island of Hvar.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Rosso live in Croatia today, in 15 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and two other places, mostly in Hvar on the Island of Hvar (25), Split (10), Zagreb (<5), Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar (<5), and in Blato on the Island of Korcula (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rosso is present in 97 countries worldwide. "Hrosso " is used by small number of people in Slovakia and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Marinela Rosso, Mićo Rosso, Nikša Rosso, Joško Rosso, Anisija Rosso, Ivica Rosso, Anamarija Rosso, Božidar Rosso, Ante Rosso, Mara Rosso, Milica Rosso, Marita Rosso, Josip Rosso, Stjepan Rosso, Ecija Rosso, Katica Rosso, Dolorata Rosso, Paulo Rosso, Toni Rosso

Mentions in sources

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

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