Surname Zorco in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Zorco families are predominantly Croats (from Rijeka ), rarely Italians (also from Rijeka ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Zorco live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in one Croatian city only, in Rijeka (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Zorco is present in 13 countries on four continents. The family name "Zorco " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mario Zorco, Ivan Zorco, Hedviga Zorco, Danica Zorco, Iolanda Zorco, Matea Zorco, Daria Zorco, Antonio Zorco, Antonia Zorco, Caterina Zorco, Dino Zorco, Emanuele Zorco, Giacomo Zorco, Giovanni Zorco, Maria Zorco, Matteo Zorco, Paolo Zorco, Regina Zorco, Simone Zorco

Mentions in sources

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

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