Surname Sunko in modern Croatia

Sunko families are Croats and they are mostly from Drnis. According to some sources they are from Poland. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Drnis.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Sunko live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Split (25), Sibenik (<10), Rijeka (<10), and in Knin (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Sunko (including: Shunko , Szunko , Suncho , Suenko , Suncoo and Sunco ) is present in 30 countries worldwide. The family name "Sunko " is used by some 500 people in Ukraine , about 200 in Russian Federation , and some 50 people in the United States. "Szunko " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Sunco " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vlado Sunko, Esmeralda Sunko, Zlatko Sunko, Nikola Sunko, Drago Sunko, Marijo Sunko, Nevenka Sunko, Damir Sunko, Ivana Sunko, Ivan Sunko, Marina Sunko, Gordana Sunko, Jagoda Sunko, Mia Sunko, Ana Sunko, Mario Sunko, Denis Sunko, Željka Sunko, Dragan Sunko

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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