Surname Šimunac in modern Croatia

Šimunac families are Croats and they are mostly from Benkovac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Benkovac area and in Western Bosnia (Livno area).

Prevalence

About 280 people with faimily name Šimunac live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Lisane Ostrovicke in Benkovac area (60), Zagreb (60), Split (25), Zadar (20), and in Dobra Voda (20).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šimunac is present in 9 countries on three continents. The family name "Simunac " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number of people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Jasna Šimunac, Dragan Šimunac, Denis Šimunac, Mladen Šimunac, Željko Šimunac, Tomislav Šimunac, Mirela Šimunac, Ružica Šimunac, Dušanka Šimunac, Damir Šimunac, Mario Šimunac, Ivica Šimunac, Brigita Šimunac, Domagoj Šimunac, Jagoda Šimunac, Nataša Šimunac, Vedran Šimunac, Melita Šimunac, Antonio Šimunac

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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