Surname Šverko in modern Croatia

Šverko families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Buzet area , barely Italians (from Umag ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Buzet area. In places Prapoće , Lanišće and Podgaće in Buzet area every third inhabitant had the family name Šverko.

Prevalence

About 470 people with faimily name Šverko live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 39 other places, mostly in Pula (105), Rijeka (40), Zagreb (30), Lanisce in Buzet area (25), and in Buzet (25).

Outside Croatia

At least 33 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (11), Germany (7), Argentina (7), the United States (5), Canada (1), the United Kingdom (1), and to France (1).
Family name Šverko (including: Sverko , Shverko , Schwerko , Swerko and Sverchko ) is present in 18 countries on four continents. The family name "Sverko " is used by some 90 people in Colombia , about 50 in Russian Federation , and some 50 people in the United States. "Schwerko " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Swerko " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Emil Šverko, Ivana Šverko, Srđan Šverko, Ivan Šverko, Ana Šverko, Miro Šverko, Marija Šverko, Sunčica Šverko, Branimir Šverko, Nenad Šverko, Iva Šverko, Danijela Šverko, Damir Šverko, Vladimir Šverko, Sonja Šverko, Manuel Šverko, Radovan Šverko, Aldo Šverko, Denis Šverko

Mentions in sources

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

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