Surname Vrcan in modern Croatia

Vrcan families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj area and in Sinj. In Ugljane in Sinj area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Vrcan.

Prevalence

About 190 people with faimily name Vrcan live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Ugljane in Sinj area (45), Zagreb (30), Split (30), Makarska (25), and in Sinj (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vrcan (including: Werchan , Vercan , Verzan , Vrzan and Vrzán ) is present in 16 countries on four continents. The family name "Vrcan " is used by small number of people in Swaziland and small number in the United States. "Werchan " is used by some 200 people in Germany and about 200 in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Alemka Vrcan, Ante Vrcan, Andreja Vrcan, Željko Vrcan, Nikola Vrcan, Milodrag Vrcan, Dragan Vrcan, Mlađan Vrcan, Zoran Vrcan, Filip Vrcan, Daria Vrcan, Lidija Vrcan, Tomislav Vrcan, Ivana Vrcan, Irena Vrcan, Sandra Vrcan, Tome Vrcan, Domagoj Vrcan, Stipe Vrcan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1926 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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