Surname Berislavić in modern Croatia

Berislavić families are Croats and they are mostly from Zagreb. According to some sources they are from Veliko Trgovisce area (villages Pluska, Krajska Ves). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac. In Selnica Šćitarjevska in Velika Gorica every tenth inhabitant had the family name Berislavić.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Berislavić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Duga Resa (20), Kula in Orahovica area (<10), Grabrovec (<10), and in Rijeka (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Berislavić (including: Berislavic , Berislavich ) is present in 6 countries on three continents. "Berislavich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zoran Berislavić, Mladen Berislavić, Marina Berislavić, Dinka Berislavić, Josip Berislavić, Robert Berislavić, Berislav Berislavić, Vjekoslav Berislavić, Zdenka Berislavić, Goran Berislavić, Petar Berislavić, Martina Berislavić, Bartol Berislavić, Hrvoje Berislavić, Ninoslav Berislavić, Sabina Berislavić, Ivan Berislavić, Franjo Berislavić, Elizabeta Berislavić

Mentions in sources

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

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