Surname Zorko in modern Croatia

Zorko families are Croats and they are mostly from Zapresic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin. In Bukovica Prekriška in Jastrebarsko area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Zorko.

Prevalence

About 350 people with faimily name Zorko live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 450 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 31 cities and 44 other places, mostly in Zagreb (70), Jakovlje in Zapresic area (30), Varazdin (25), Krizevci (15), and in Voloder in Kutina area (15).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (4), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Zorko (including: Zorco , Zhorko ) is present in 27 countries worldwide. The family name "Zorko " is used by some 200 people in Germany , about 200 in the United States , and some 200 people in Belarus. "Zorco " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Tomislav Zorko, Mladen Zorko, Branka Zorko, Mario Zorko, Ivan Zorko, Željko Zorko, Damir Zorko, Srećko Zorko, Milan Zorko, Đurđa Zorko, Lidija Zorko, Melanija Zorko, Branko Zorko, Zdenko Zorko, Zrinka Zorko, Marta Zorko, Davorin Zorko, Ljudmila Zorko, Ivica Zorko

Mentions in sources

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

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