Surname Sočo in modern Croatia

Sočo families are Croats and they are mostly from Imotski area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotski area and in Split.

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Sočo live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 90 percent.
They are only located in in 9 Croatian cities and 11 other places, mostly in Imotski (35), Split (25), Neoric in Sinj area (25), Zagreb (20), and in Stobrec (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Sočo (including: Soco , Socio , Soccio , Sozzo , Socco , Sochko , Socko , Socho , Sochno and Sockho ) is present in 63 countries worldwide. "Socho " is used by few people in the United States. "Socco " is used by some 100 people in Italy , about 90 in the Philippines , and some 70 people in the United States. "Socko " is used by some 600 people in Niger , about 600 in Poland , and some 100 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zrinko Sočo, Jasmina Sočo, Marija Sočo, Zdenko Sočo, Mladen Sočo, Ivica Sočo, Antonia Sočo, Igor Sočo, Željko Sočo, Mate Sočo, Zora Sočo, Dijana Sočo, Ksenija Sočo, Dolores Sočo, Lucija Sočo, Josip Sočo, Petar Sočo, Tino Sočo, Vinko Sočo

Mentions in sources

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

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