Surname Šanko in modern Croatia

Šanko families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Pag. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Pag and in Rijeka. In places Lun and Novalja on the Island of Pag every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Šanko.

Prevalence

About 160 people with faimily name Šanko live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Novalja on the Island of Pag (70), Rijeka (45), Banjol on the Island of Rab (20), Zagreb (15), and in Lun on the Island of Pag (15).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (3), Germany (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Šanko (including: Sanko , Shanko , Sankoh , Shtanko , Schanko , Shpanko , Shmanko , Shranko , Sankho and Sankoo ) is present in 124 countries worldwide. The family name "Sanko " is used by some 4000 people in Belarus , about 3000 in Russian Federation , and some 2000 people in the United States. "Shranko " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Sheranko " is used by some 100 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Davor Šanko, Nevenka Šanko, Boris Šanko, Dubravka Šanko, Zorin Šanko, Zdravko Šanko, Valter Šanko, Milena Šanko, Anton Šanko, Zorana Šanko, Neven Šanko, Ivica Šanko, Lary Šanko, Zoran Šanko, Klaudio Šanko, Franjo Šanko, Biserka Šanko, Tomislav Šanko, Vlado Šanko

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1754 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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