Surname Šestan in modern Croatia

Šestan families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Zadar area , rarely Italians (Rijeka). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and Rijeka. In Lanišće in Labin area nearly every inhabitant had the family name Šestan.

Prevalence

About 960 people with faimily name Šestan live in Croatia today, in 390 households. There were 700 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 41 cities and 81 other places, mostly in Zagreb (105), Zadar (90), Zemunik Donji in Zadar area (80), Rijeka (65), and in Novalja on the Island of Pag (45).

Outside Croatia

At least 22 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (4), Chile (4), Sweden (3), the United States (3), Argentina (2), France (2), New Zealand (1), Switzerland (1), Germany (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Šestan (including: Sestan , Shestan ) is present in 16 countries on four continents.

Characteristic first names

Ante Šestan, Anton Šestan, Branko Šestan, Mirjana Šestan, Tomislav Šestan, Neven Šestan, Samanta Šestan, Marina Šestan, Danijel Šestan, Rozana Šestan, Sergio Šestan, Srećko Šestan, Igor Šestan, Vladislav Šestan, Zoran Šestan, Snježana Šestan, Deniza Šestan, Ines Šestan, Ljiljana Šestan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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