Surname Baraba in modern Croatia

Baraba families are Croats and they are mostly from Novigrada. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novigrad and Zadar. In Paljuv in Novigrad every fourth inhabitant had the family name Baraba.

Prevalence

About 380 people with faimily name Baraba live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Rijeka (90), Zadar (70), Paljuv in Novigrad Area in Dalmatia (45), Zagreb (30), and in Split (15).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), Sweden (1), the United States (1), and to France (1).
Family name Baraba (including: Barabba , Barabaa and Barraba ) is present in 33 countries worldwide. "Barabba " is used by some 200 people in Italy , about 70 in Brazil , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ranka Baraba, Anja Baraba, Igor Baraba, Ante Baraba, Dijana Baraba, Sandro Baraba, Gordana Baraba, Andreja Baraba, Zdenko Baraba, Predrag Baraba, Ingrid Baraba, Tomislav Baraba, Ivana Baraba, Ivica Baraba, Dragica Baraba, Vesna Baraba, Mladen Baraba, Jasmina Baraba, Milena Baraba

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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