Surname Tuškan in modern Croatia

Tuškan families are Croats and they are mostly from Karlovac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and Zagreb. In Ladvenjak in Karlovac every third inhabitant had the family name Tuškan.

Prevalence

About 520 people with faimily name Tuškan live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 620 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 41 other places, mostly in Karlovac (130), Zagreb (105), Ladvenjak (85), Mali Bukovec in Zlatar area (60), and in Duga Resa (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 20 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (7), Germany (7), the United States (3), Argentina (1), Canada (1), and to France (1).
Family name Tuškan (including: Tuskan , Tushkan , Tuscan , Tuschman and Tuschmann ) is present in 25 countries worldwide. The family name "Tuskan " is used by some 500 people in Turkey , about 300 in the United States , and some 200 people in Hungary. "Tuscan " is used by some 300 people in the United States and small number in Mexico. "Tuschman " is used by some 100 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Marica Tuškan, Nikola Tuškan, Branka Tuškan, Marijan Tuškan, Martina Tuškan, Damir Tuškan, Emil Tuškan, Božica Tuškan, Danijel Tuškan, Marko Tuškan, Jasminka Tuškan, Vedran Tuškan, Jadranka Tuškan, Tomislav Tuškan, Nada Tuškan, Dinko Tuškan, Jelena Tuškan, Zorislav Tuškan, Marija Tuškan

Mentions in sources

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

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