Surname Tudor in modern Croatia

Tudor families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Hvar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and on the Island of Hvar.

Prevalence

About 480 people with faimily name Tudor live in Croatia today, in 200 households. There were 410 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Split (175), in Hvar (100) and Milna (80) on the Island of Hvar, Zagreb (45), and in Slavonski Brod (40).

Outside Croatia

At least 17 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (7), Argentina (3), France (2), Switzerland (2), the Netherlands (1), Canada (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Tudor (including: Thudor , Tuedor ) is present in 87 countries worldwide. The family name "Tudor " is used by some 60000 people in Romania , about 7000 in the United States , and some 2000 people in Great Britain. "Tuedor " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Goran Tudor, Alessandra Tudor, Anton Tudor, Mato Tudor, Marin Tudor, Boris Tudor, Marino Tudor, Ivan Tudor, Nevena Tudor, Lovro Tudor, Eduard Tudor, Branko Tudor, Davor Tudor, Mladen Tudor, Mario Tudor, Lada Tudor, Robert Tudor, Irena Tudor, Nikola Tudor

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1729 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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