Surname Smolko in modern Croatia

Smolko families are Croats and they are mostly from Dugo Selo area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dugo Selo area and in Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Smolko live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and four other places, mostly in Oborovo (15) and Rugvica (<10) in Dugo Selo area, Dugo Selo (<10), Sesvete (<10), and in Sisak (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Smolko is present in 22 countries worldwide. The family name "Smolko " is used by some 800 people in Russian Federation , about 400 in the United States , and some 400 people in Poland. "Szmolko " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Smolko, Milena Smolko, Sanja Smolko, Siniša Smolko, Josip Smolko, Darko Smolko, Jadranka Smolko, Dušica Smolko, Stjepan Smolko, Vladimir Smolko, Đurđa Smolko, Vlado Smolko, Dubravka Smolko, Tihomir Smolko, Emerik Smolko, Marica Smolko, Ljubica Smolko, Vesna Smolko, Ivan Smolko

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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