Surname Bračko in modern Croatia

Bračko families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Lepoglava area , barely Slovenes. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Lepoglava area and in Varazdin. In Vrbno in Lepoglava area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Bračko.

Prevalence

About 290 people with faimily name Bračko live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 250 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 24 cities and 31 other places, mostly in Koprivnica (35), Lepoglava (30), Zagreb (25), Varazdin (20), and in Struga in Ludbreg area (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bračko (including: Bracco , Braccio , Bracko , Bratschko , Brachko , Beracko and Braczko ) is present in 50 countries worldwide. The family name "Bracko " is used by small number of people in Canada , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Germany. "Bratschko " is used by some 70 people in Austria and small number in the United States. "Bracco " is used by some 4000 people in Italy , about 3000 in Argentina , and some 2000 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Stjepan Bračko, Mladen Bračko, Željka Bračko, Marina Bračko, Jozo Bračko, Božidar Bračko, Silvestar Bračko, Kristina Bračko, Goranka Bračko, Marija Bračko, Ivana Bračko, Vladimir Bračko, Veljko Bračko, Mario Bračko, Ivica Bračko, Miljenka Bračko, Darko Bračko, Andrea Bračko, Anđela Bračko

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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