Surname Blazina in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Blazina families are Croats (from Nova Gradiska ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Blazina live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, four cities and threee other places, mostly in Nova Gradiska (<5), Jadreski in Pula area (<5), Velika Gorica (<5), Cernik in Nova Gradiska area (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Blazina (including: Blazhina , Blazyna ) is present in 25 countries worldwide. The family name "Blazina " is used by some 800 people in the United States , about 300 in Argentina , and some 200 people in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Željko Blazina, Ivana Blazina, Bruno Blazina, Antun Blazina, Mira Blazina, Vladimir Blazina, Mirko Blazina, Tomislav Blazina, Vlado Blazina, Mara Blazina, Mirijana Blazina, Nada Blazina, Marko Blazina, Ljuba Blazina, Elizabeta Blazina, Ivan Blazina, Josip Blazina, Terezija Blazina, Bara Blazina

Mentions in sources

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

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