Surname Roško in modern Croatia

Roško families are Croats and they are mostly from Skradin. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Skradin and Sibenik. In Sonković in Skradin every tenth inhabitant had the family name Roško.

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Roško live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Sibenik (30), Trnovec in Varazdin area (25), Zagreb (20), Sonkovic (<10), and in Split (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Germany (1) and the United States (1).
Family name Roško (including: Rosko , Roshko , Rosco , Roszko , Roscio , Roschko , Rossko , Roshco , Rossco and Roscko ) is present in 50 countries worldwide. The family name "Rosko " is used by some 3000 people in the United States , about 2000 in Slovakia , and some 600 people in Hungary. "Roschko " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Austria. "Rossko " is used by small number of people in Russian Federation and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Damir Roško, Zoran Roško, Mladen Roško, Nives Roško, Anka Roško, Ivan Roško, Zdravko Roško, Jelena Roško, Frane Roško, Marko Roško, Jasenka Roško, Helena Roško, Nikolina Roško, Igor Roško, Jasmenka Roško, Ivana Roško, Nikola Roško, Danijel Roško, Željko Roško

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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