Surname Antica in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Antica families are Croats (from the Island of Lastovo ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Lastovo and in Split.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Antica live in Croatia today, in 16 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Lastovo (10) and Zaklopatica (<10) on the Island of Lastovo, Zagreb (<5), Sibenik (<5), and in Biograd na moru (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Antica (including: Antiza , Anticha and Antizza ) is present in 16 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Nikša Antica, Gojko Antica, Davor Antica, Venera Antica, Nikolina Antica, Srđan Antica, Kristo Antica, Anita Antica, Bartul Antica, Marina Antica, Pasko Antica, Mia Antica, Mariastefania Antica, Ivica Antica, Korina Antica, Berislav Antica, Mihovil Antica, Anzelmo Antica, Silvo Antica

Mentions in sources

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

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