Surname Sanseović in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Sanseović 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 Osijek. In Dol on the Island of Hvar every nintieth inhabitant had the family name Sanseović.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Sanseović live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar (15), Osijek (10), Zagreb (<5), and in Visnjevac (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Sanseović (including: Sanseovich , Sanseovic ) is present in three countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Imelda Sanseović, Tedi Sanseović, Hrvoje Sanseović, Veska Sanseović, Marijo Sanseović, Jure Sanseović, Maja Sanseović, Ivan Sanseović, Anamarija Sanseović, Bruno Sanseović, Stipe Sanseović, Antun Sanseović, Dinka Sanseović, Marija Sanseović, Matko Sanseović, Ivana Sanseović, Magdalena Sanseović, Nilka Sanseović, Vinko Sanseović

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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