Surname Vukas in modern Croatia

Vukas families are often Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area , less frequently Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sinj. In places Vedrine and Ljut in Sinj area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Vukas.

Prevalence

About 830 people with faimily name Vukas live in Croatia today, in 350 households. There were 1000 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 49 cities and 82 other places, mostly in Vedrine in Sinj area (90), Zagreb (70), Trilj in Sinj area (65), Rijeka (60), and in Split (45).

Outside Croatia

At least 19 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (9), Germany (5), Canada (4), and to Australia (1).
Family name Vukas (including: Vucas , Wukas ) is present in 19 countries worldwide. The family name "Vukas " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 70 in Canada , and some 60 people in Australia. "Wukas " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Jurica Vukas, Budislav Vukas, Tina Vukas, Dunja Vukas, Jelena Vukas, Stipan Vukas, Tanja Vukas, Denis Vukas, Duje Vukas, Ana Vukas, Zdeslav Vukas, Vladimir Vukas, Čedomir Vukas, Romano Vukas, Katica Vukas, Bernarda Vukas, Nikša Vukas, Blaženka Vukas, Ante Vukas

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned about one hundred times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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