Surname Žanetić in modern Croatia

Žanetić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Korcula. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Korcula and in Split.

Prevalence

About 270 people with faimily name Žanetić live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than tripled.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Blato on the Island of Korcula (165), Split (30), Zagreb (20), Dubrovnik (15), and in Korcula on the Island of Korcula (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (9), Brazil (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Žanetić (including: Zanetic , Zanetich ) is present in 14 countries worldwide. "Zanetich " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Australia , and small number of people in Argentina.

Characteristic first names

Krešimir Žanetić, Ilija Žanetić, Dragan Žanetić, Siniša Žanetić, Mladen Žanetić, Lina Žanetić, Ratimir Žanetić, Lili Žanetić, Slobodan Žanetić, Tomislav Žanetić, Dubravko Žanetić, Marlena Žanetić, Davorin Žanetić, Kristina Žanetić, Ljiljana Žanetić, Srđan Žanetić, Kuzma Žanetić, Gordana Žanetić, Mirjana Žanetić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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