Surname Banišić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Banišić families are Croats (from Labin area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Labin.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Banišić live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in only four Croatian places: in Markoci in Labin area (<10), Labin (<10), and in Snasici (<10) and Vrecari (<5) in Labin area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Banišić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Laura Banišić, Katja Banišić, Lucijan Banišić, Elvis Banišić, Vedran Banišić, Mariza Banišić, Sanja Banišić, Morena Banišić, Miro Banišić, Dean Banišić, Loris Banišić, Anamarija Banišić, Denis Banišić, Maria Banišić, Renato Banišić, Milka Banišić, Josip Banišić, Remiđo Banišić, Branko Banišić

Mentions in sources

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

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