Surname Češković in modern Croatia

Češković families are Croats and they are mostly from Dugo Selo area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Velika Gorica. In Prevlaka in Dugo Selo area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Češković.

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Češković live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 23 other places, mostly in Donja Lomnica (25), Zagreb (25), Karlovac (<10), Preloscica (<10), and in Posavski Bregi (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Češković (including: Ceskovic , Cheshkovich ) is present in 6 countries.

Characteristic first names

Čedomir Češković, Franjo Češković, Mato Češković, Ljerka Češković, Valentina Češković, Branko Češković, Ivan Češković, Dražen Češković, Igor Češković, Ivana Češković, Vlado Češković, Maja Češković, Darinka Češković, Silvija Češković, Darko Češković, Stjepan Češković, Nina Češković, Krunoslav Češković, Sanja Češković

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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