Surname Vaško in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Vaško families are mainly Croats (from Slavonski Brod ), less frequently Czechs (from Sisak ), and very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak and in Bosanian Posavina (Derventa area).

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Vaško live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and four other places, mostly in Slavonski Brod (20), Jazvenik (<10), Stupno (<10), Petrinja (<5), and in Rijeka (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vaško (including: Vasko , Vasco , Vashko , Vashiko , Vashoko , Vhashiko , Vashco , Vasheko , Vaskó and Vascko ) is present in 97 countries worldwide. The family name "Vasko " is used by some 6000 people in Ukraine , about 4000 in Slovakia , and some 4000 people in the United States. "Vascko " is used by few people in the United States. "Wasko " is used by some 3000 people in the United States , about 3000 in Poland , and some 100 people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Snježana Vaško, Renata Vaško, Jasna Vaško, Damir Vaško, Oto Vaško, Zdenko Vaško, Daliborka Vaško, Vlatko Vaško, Bosiljka Vaško, Josip Vaško, Nikola Vaško, Ljubica Vaško, Artur Vaško, Ljerka Vaško, Sanja Vaško, Dragutin Vaško, Ivan Vaško, Adela Vaško, Venceslav Vaško

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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