Surname Čop in modern Croatia

Čop families are Croats and they are mostly from Cabar. According to some sources they are from Istria (near Pazin). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 900 people with faimily name Čop live in Croatia today, in 400 households. There were 1000 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 48 cities and 78 other places, mostly in Zagreb (200), Rijeka (105), Lokve in Delnice area (45), Cvitovic (30), and in Gerovo (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 34 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: France (21), the United States (5), Germany (4), Austria (1), Australia (1), Argentina (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Čop (including: Cop , Copp , Chop , Coop , Tschopp , Chopp , Czop , Tschop , Ciop and Csop ) is present in 116 countries worldwide. "Chop " is used by some 700 people in Ukraine , about 500 in the United States , and some 300 people in Cameroon. "Tschop " is used by some 60 people in the United States. "Copp " is used by some 6000 people in the United States , about 1000 in Canada , and some 600 people in Great Britain.

Characteristic first names

Slavko Čop, Srđan Čop, Renata Čop, Ana Čop, Sanja Čop, Igor Čop, Nevenka Čop, Davor Čop, Josip Čop, Andrija Čop, Marta Čop, Anton Čop, Ivica Čop, Hrvoje Čop, Željka Čop, Vilim Čop, Darko Čop, Marko Čop, Krešimir Čop

Mentions in sources

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

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