Surname Šuk in modern Croatia

Šuk families are Croats and they are mostly from Oroslavje. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Oroslavje. In Krušljevo Selo in Oroslavje every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Šuk.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Šuk live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties and 10 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Oroslavje (25), Krusljevo Selo (<10), Stubicka Slatina (<5), and in Stubicke Toplice in Oroslavje area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šuk (including: Suk , Schuck , Shuk , Shuck , Suck , Schuk , Suek , Schueck , Sueck and Schuek ) is present in 117 countries worldwide. The family name "Suk " is used by some 20000 people in Korea (South) , about 4000 in Thailand , and some 2000 people in the United States. "Schuk " is used by some 400 people in Germany , about 300 in the United States , and some 70 people in Canada. "Suek " is used by some 600 people in Indonesia , about 200 in the United States , and some 100 people in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Vladimir Šuk, Davor Šuk, Srećko Šuk, Tomislav Šuk, Krešimir Šuk, Emil Šuk, Željka Šuk, Snježana Šuk, Josip Šuk, Ljubiša Šuk, Ksenija Šuk, Ivana Šuk, Mirjana Šuk, Jelena Šuk, Darko Šuk, Dario Šuk, Gordana Šuk, Stanislav Šuk, Verica Šuk

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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