Surname Vuga in modern Croatia

Vuga families are often Croats and they are mostly from Sisak area , less frequently Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sisak.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Vuga live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Sisak (10), Desni Dubrovcak in Sisak area (10), Kutina (<10), and in Virovitica (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vuga (including: Wuga , Vugga and Vugha ) is present in 25 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Velimir Vuga, Robert Vuga, Domagoj Vuga, Monika Vuga, Slavko Vuga, Berislav Vuga, Ljiljana Vuga, Jovanka Vuga, Zlatko Vuga, Edita Vuga, Saša Vuga, Tomislav Vuga, Jasna Vuga, Branko Vuga, Ivana Vuga, Kristina Vuga, Damir Vuga, Katarina Vuga, Boštjan Vuga

Mentions in sources

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

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