Surname Šafranko in modern Croatia

Šafranko families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Krapina area and in Zagreb. In places Donji Macelj and Prigorje in Krapina area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Šafranko.

Prevalence

About 290 people with faimily name Šafranko live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Donji Macelj in Krapina area (75), Zagreb (65), Prigorje in Krapina area (40), Velika Gorica (25), and in Split (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šafranko (including: Safranko , Shafranko and Szafranko ) is present in 17 countries on four continents. The family name "Safranko " is used by some 200 people in Slovakia , about 100 in the United States , and some 60 people in Czech Republic. "Shafranko " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Šafranko, Zvonko Šafranko, Edita Šafranko, Mirko Šafranko, Lidija Šafranko, Rudolf Šafranko, Robert Šafranko, Damir Šafranko, Helena Šafranko, Mario Šafranko, Vedran Šafranko, Dušan Šafranko, Vladica Šafranko, Krešimir Šafranko, Zlatko Šafranko, Branka Šafranko, Irena Šafranko, Ivan Šafranko, Darko Šafranko

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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