Surname Šalinović in modern Croatia

Šalinović families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrgorac. According to some sources they are from Medjugorje. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrgorac and in Prolog, near Ljubuški. U Gradu Vrgorcu every ninth inhabitant had the family name Šalinović.

Prevalence

About 510 people with faimily name Šalinović live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 90 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Veliki Prolog (155), Split (85), Vrgorac (70), Zagreb (30), and in Ploce (25).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šalinović (including: Salinovic , Salinovich and Salinowicz ) is present in 9 countries on four continents. "Salinovich " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Argentina , and small number in Australia. "Salinowicz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Karmen Šalinović, Ivan Šalinović, Zoran Šalinović, Teomil Šalinović, Ivica Šalinović, Toma Šalinović, Neno Šalinović, Gordan Šalinović, Zdenka Šalinović, Ines Šalinović, Daniela Šalinović, Krešimir Šalinović, Marinko Šalinović, Boris Šalinović, Filip Šalinović, Jugana Šalinović, Petar Šalinović, Mirjana Šalinović, Nikola Šalinović

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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