Surname Bradica in modern Croatia

Bradica families are Croats and they are mostly from Jastrebarsko area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Jastrebarsko area and in Zadar. In Jezerine in Jastrebarsko area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Bradica.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Bradica live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Jezerine in Jastrebarsko area (15), Zadar (15), Velika Gorica (<10), and in Crno (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least 12 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (8), Germany (3), and to Canada (1).
Family name Bradica (including: Bradizza , Bradiza ) is present in 7 countries on four continents. The family name "Bradica " is used by some 90 people in the United States , about 60 in Canada , and small number of people in Mongolia. "Bradizza " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dragica Bradica, Davor Bradica, Lorena Bradica, Mira Bradica, Danijel Bradica, Želimir Bradica, Nikolina Bradica, Željko Bradica, Robert Bradica, Nikola Bradica, Karlo Bradica, Helena Bradica, Josip Bradica, Dalibor Bradica, Ivan Bradica, Branko Bradica, Goran Bradica, Krešimir Bradica, Monika Bradica

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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