Surname Zekan in modern Croatia

Zekan 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 Split and in Sinj area. In Donje Postinje in Sinj area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Zekan.

Prevalence

About 210 people with faimily name Zekan live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Split (110), Pridraga in Novigrad Area in Dalmatia (30), Zagreb (15), Rijeka (15), and in Osijek (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Zekan (including: Zechman , Zechmann ) is present in 22 countries worldwide. The family name "Zekan " is used by some 90 people in the United States and small number in Australia. "Zechman " is used by some 900 people in the United States , about 70 in Japan , and small number of people in Poland. "Zechmann " is used by some 300 people in Germany , about 200 in the United States , and some 200 people in Austria.

Characteristic first names

Feđa Zekan, Branimir Zekan, Šime Zekan, Joško Zekan, Mate Zekan, Petar Zekan, Armano Zekan, Zlatko Zekan, Ljubinka Zekan, Ljiljana Zekan, Nataša Zekan, Ante Zekan, Alisa Zekan, Lino Zekan, Nila Zekan, Tonći Zekan, Mihaela Zekan, Ivan Zekan, Nenad Zekan

Mentions in sources

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

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