Surname Žigante.

  • Surname Žigante in modern Croatia

    Žigante families are Croats and they are mostly from Buzet. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Buzet and Pula. In Sovinjska Brda in Buzet every eighth inhabitant had the family name Žigante.

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  • Prevalence

    About 70 people with faimily name Žigante live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
    They are located in threee Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Buzet (15), Rijeka (10), Umag (<10), Porec (<10), and in Zagreb (<10).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Žigante is present in 14 countries on four continents.

  • Characteristic first names

    Sandra Žigante, Diana Žigante, Alen Žigante, Anja Žigante, Edvin Žigante, Josip Žigante, Mark Žigante, Samanta Žigante, Andreja Žigante, Damir Žigante, Boris Žigante, Danijela Žigante, Dragana Žigante, Darinka Žigante, Ljiljana Žigante, Željko Žigante, Serđo Žigante, Arđeo Žigante, Dubravka Žigante

  • Last name Žigante around the globe

    See the countries where surname Žigante is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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