Surname Arbutina in modern Croatia

Arbutina families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Hrvatska Kostajnica area , whereas often Croats (also from Hrvatska Kostajnica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Hrvatska Kostajnica area and in Zagreb. In places Gorička , Brđani Cesta and Bansko Vrpolje in Hrvatska Kostajnica area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Arbutina.

Prevalence

About 370 people with faimily name Arbutina live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 830 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 53 other places, mostly in Zagreb (85), Sisak (40), Borovo in Vukovar area (25), Goricka in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (20), and in Glina (15).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (1), the United Kingdom (1), Switzerland (1), and to France (1).
Family name Arbutina is present in 14 countries on four continents. The family name "Arbutina " is used by some 200 people in the United States and small number in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Hrvoje Arbutina, Dražen Arbutina, Marko Arbutina, Rajko Arbutina, Igor Arbutina, Stanislav Arbutina, Paulina Arbutina, Ljiljana Arbutina, Branimir Arbutina, Ankica Arbutina, Dušan Arbutina, Dmitar Arbutina, Ljubomir Arbutina, Nikola Arbutina, Miljenko Arbutina, Anka Arbutina, Borislav Arbutina, Milena Arbutina, Miloš Arbutina

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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