Surname Bandalo in modern Croatia

Bandalo families are Croats and they are mostly from Knin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosnian Krajina (Kotor Varos area) and in Knin area. In Oklaj in Knin area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Bandalo.

Prevalence

About 250 people with faimily name Bandalo live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Djakovo (20), Oklaj in Knin area (20), Grab in Sinj area (15), and in Sinj (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bandalo is present in 12 countries on four continents. The family name "Bandalo " is used by small number of people in Germany and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivica Bandalo, Mate Bandalo, Hrvoje Bandalo, Marinko Bandalo, Luka Bandalo, Višnja Bandalo, Snježana Bandalo, Zvonko Bandalo, Ivo Bandalo, Marko Bandalo, Sandra Bandalo, Mario Bandalo, Branko Bandalo, Danijela Bandalo, Ivan Bandalo, Ivana Bandalo, Dinka Bandalo, Biljana Bandalo, Anita Bandalo

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1928 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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