Surname Samošćanec in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Samošćanec families are Croats (from Koprivnica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Koprivnica and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Samošćanec live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and 5 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Koprivnica (10), Djelekovec in Koprivnica area (<10), Sesvete (<5), and in Koprivnicki Ivanec in Koprivnica area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Samošćanec is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Ksenija Samošćanec, Jasenka Samošćanec, Alen Samošćanec, Samanta Samošćanec, Blaženka Samošćanec, Svemir Samošćanec, Slavko Samošćanec, Mihaela Samošćanec, Marko Samošćanec, Stjepan Samošćanec, Mladen Samošćanec, Ivana Samošćanec, Zlatko Samošćanec, Vjekoslav Samošćanec, Tomislav Samošćanec, Marina Samošćanec, Davor Samošćanec, Zdravko Samošćanec, Nadija Samošćanec

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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