Surname Zanko.

  • Surname Zanko in modern Croatia

    In Croatia, Zanko families are Croats by relative majority (from Buzet area ), equally Italians (also from Buzet area ), and rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slovenia and in Buzet. In Vižintini in Buzet area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Zanko.

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  • Prevalence

    About 10 people with faimily name Zanko live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
    They are located in only threee Croatian places: in Vizintini (<10) and Livade (<5) in Buzet area, and in Umag (<5).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Zanko (including: Zanco , Zhanko and Zancho ) is present in 43 countries worldwide. "Zanco " is used by some 3000 people in Brazil , about 1000 in Italy , and some 200 people in the United States. "Zancho " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Denmark.

  • Characteristic first names

    Marija Zanko, Bruno Zanko, Edo Zanko, Danijel Zanko, Fabio Zanko, Resmija Zanko, Petar Zanko, Ivan Zanko, Ruđero Zanko, Milka Zanko, Dušanka Zanko, Mario Zanko, Suzana Zanko, Otavijo Zanko, Danica Zanko, Natalija Zanko, Alen Zanko, Karolina Zanko, Ana Zanko

  • Last name Zanko around the globe

    See the countries where surname Zanko is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1927 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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