Šakanović families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Cazinska Krajina Region (Bosnia), often Bosniaks (also from Cazinska Krajina Region , Bosnia), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cazins Region, Bosnia (Velika Kladusa area) and in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanski Novi area). In places Orčeva Luka , Rajnovac and Podzvizd in Cazins Region (Bosnia) every fifth inhabitant had the family name Šakanović.
Prevalence
About 100 people with faimily name Šakanović live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Rijeka (25), Zagreb (20), Petrinja (<10), Karlovac (<10), and in Sesvete (<10).
