Surname Sanjković in modern Croatia

Sanjković families are Croats and they are mostly from Mursko Sredisce area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and in Mursko Sredisce area.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Sanjković live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and 10 other places, mostly in Cakovec (45), Zagreb (20), Dekanovec in Prelog area (15), Poljana (<10), and in Varazdin (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Sanjković (including: Sanjkovic , Sanikovich and Sanykovich ) is present in 8 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Mladen Sanjković, Ksenija Sanjković, Vesna Sanjković, Elvis Sanjković, Ljubica Sanjković, Tanja Sanjković, Ivana Sanjković, Bruno Sanjković, Ivan Sanjković, Radmila Sanjković, Petar Sanjković, Stanislava Sanjković, Dušanka Sanjković, Marinko Sanjković, Silvija Sanjković, Anica Sanjković, Davor Sanjković, Antun Sanjković, Mihajlo Sanjković

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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