Surname Čorda in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Čorda families are generally Croats (from Orahovica area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar and Orahovica.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Čorda live in Croatia today, in 10 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Humljani in Orahovica area (10), Nasice (<10), Bjelovar (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Marija Bistrica in Zlatar area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čorda (including: Corda , Chorda , Chvorda , Choborda , Cordha , Chemorda , Chekorda and Chitorda ) is present in 56 countries worldwide. The family name "Corda " is used by some 10000 people in Italy , about 2000 in the United States , and some 2000 people in the Philippines. "Choborda " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivanka Čorda, Stjepan Čorda, Bojan Čorda, Jasmin Čorda, Želimir Čorda, Sanja Čorda, Marijan Čorda, Marija Čorda, Anica Čorda, Stanislav Čorda, Miroslav Čorda, Dalibor Čorda, Mladen Čorda, Stevan Čorda, Vera Čorda, Štefanija Čorda, Rudolf Čorda, Veronika Čorda, Smilja Čorda

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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