Surname Blažina in modern Croatia

Blažina families are Croats and they are mostly from Labin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Drenje in Labin area nearly every inhabitant had the family name Blažina.

Prevalence

About 460 people with faimily name Blažina live in Croatia today, in 200 households. There were 540 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 57 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Rijeka (35), Durlinci (30), Pula (25), and in Labin (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 36 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (25), Canada (5), Australia (2), Germany (2), Bolivia (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Blažina (including: Blazina , Blazhina and 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

Alfred Blažina, Klaudio Blažina, Dalibor Blažina, Želimir Blažina, Hrvoje Blažina, Ranko Blažina, Srđan Blažina, Ivica Blažina, Zvonimir Blažina, Tomica Blažina, Branimir Blažina, Ivan Blažina, Marijan Blažina, Aliče Blažina, Eneo Blažina, Maria Blažina, Valneo Blažina, Dubravko Blažina, Držislav Blažina

Mentions in sources

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

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