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Rukavina

Rukavina. Attested in Croatia, United States of America, Slovenia, Austria, Denmark, borne by about 4,005 people in the registers this map holds.

What Wikidata says this name is

Copied from Wikidata, not worked out here. It is crowd-sourced and wrong in places, which is why the item is linked below rather than the claim simply repeated.

Q21489138 on Wikidata ↗ — the item every line above came from.

What Wiktionary says this name is

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  • Serbo-Croatian what the English entry says it is from
  • English recorded as a surname in these languages

    A language here is the language of the NAME, not a country a family came from — the same caveat the Wikidata section carries, and worth repeating rather than assumed read.

Rukavina on Wiktionary ↗ — read at revision 87897738. Text from Wiktionary, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

It is also the name of a place

2 places drawn, the largest being Rukavina, RukavinaRukavina — 1Rukavina — 1
Where those places are. A dot is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Rukavina Croatia
  • Rukavina United States of America

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 5 countries: Croatia, United States of America, Slovenia, Austria, DenmarkAustria — attested, not countedDenmark — attested, not countedSlovenia — 42 peopleUnited States of America — 549 peopleCroatia — 3,414 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. A hollow ring is attested but not counted — Denmark publishes which surnames exist and not how many carry each, and a family archive finds a name without counting heads. Sizing those by a number nobody published would invent it. Blank is not absence. This draws the 5 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Croatia

3,414 Borne — a state counted them — Names and surnames in the Republic of Croatia, 2011 Population Census (DZS).

Names and surnames in the Republic of Croatia, 2011 Population Census (DZS) answers questions rather than publishing a list. This name was asked about because the atlas already holds it elsewhere — a name absent here may simply never have been asked about, not absent from Croatia.

Whose archive to write to

615 of 5,047 volumes held for Croatia overlap the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1970s and 1980s — the decades Rukavina is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Rukavina. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Civil registration and vital records, Censuses and population lists, Military and wartime. See everything this atlas holds for Croatia →

United States of America

549 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census; Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2000 Census.

Whose archive to write to

14,181 of 528,875 volumes held for United States of America overlap the 1950s — the decades Rukavina is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Rukavina. The commonest kinds: Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for United States of America →

Slovenia

42 Borne — a state counted them — Family names, Slovenia, 2026 (SURS tables 05X1015S–05X1018S).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Rukavina in Slovenia, so it cannot narrow Slovenia's 1,585 volumes by date — see Slovenia's own page for all of it.

Austria

Found in a record — Blažević.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Rukavina in Austria, so it cannot narrow Austria's 19,941 volumes by date — see Austria's own page for all of it.

Denmark

Borne — a state counted them — Navne registreret i Danmark, January 2020 (Danmarks Statistik, republished by Digitaliseringsstyrelsen).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Rukavina in Denmark, so it cannot narrow Denmark's 4,099 volumes by date — see Denmark's own page for all of it.

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

Croatia
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Southern Istria 9 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia → Republic of Venice → Austria → Napoleonic → …
  • The Kvarner — Senj, Vinodol, Rijeka 8 eras Frankopan counts of Krk and Vinodol → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Dalmatia 10 eras Hungarian–Croatian crown → Republic of Venice → Austria → French Illyria → …
  • The Imotski frontier 7 eras Ottoman Empire → Republic of Venice → Austria → French Illyria → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
  • The Military Frontier — Vojna krajina 8 eras Habsburg military frontier, under Graz and Vienna → Habsburg → Croatia-Slavonia, within Hungary → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Yugoslavia → …
United States of America
Slovenia
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
Austria
  • Hungary — the Kingdom's core 7 eras Kingdom of Hungary → Ottoman Hungary and Royal Hungary → Habsburg → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Bohemia 6 eras Kingdom of Bohemia → Austria → Czechoslovakia → Sudetenland and the Reichsprotektorat → …
  • Carnia, Friuli 6 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia → Republic of Venice → Austria → Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy → …
  • Moravia and Silesia 6 eras Margraviate of Moravia → Austria → Czechoslovakia → Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
Denmark
  • Denmark 4 eras Denmark–Norway → Denmark, after the loss of Norway → Prussia, then the German Empire → Denmark

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