Surname Čerina in modern Croatia

Čerina families are Croats and they are mostly from Solin. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Benkovac. In Podgrađe in Benkovac every second inhabitant had the family name Čerina.

Prevalence

About 480 people with faimily name Čerina live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 80 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 23 other places, mostly in Solin (115), Split (95), Podgradje (65), Zagreb (50), and in Zadar (35).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Canada (1), Switzerland (1), Argentina (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Čerina (including: Cerina , Cherina , Cerrina , Chumerina , Chuverina , Chaerina , Chaderina , Cheperina , Choerina and Cherrina ) is present in 37 countries worldwide. "Cerrina " is used by some 300 people in Italy , about 70 in Argentina , and some 50 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Tonči Čerina, Zdeslav Čerina, Ivan Čerina, Jasmina Čerina, Tomislav Čerina, Vatroslav Čerina, Sanja Čerina, Renato Čerina, Joško Čerina, Josip Čerina, Marica Čerina, Mario Čerina, Igor Čerina, Ljiljana Čerina, Gordana Čerina, Jozo Čerina, Helena Čerina, Vlado Čerina, Ema Čerina

Mentions in sources

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

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