Surname Braica in modern Croatia

Braica families are Croats and they are mostly from Drnis. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis and Sibenik. In Radonić in Drnis every ninth inhabitant had the family name Braica.

Prevalence

About 160 people with faimily name Braica live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Sibenik (70), Split (15), Drnis (10), Cilipi in Dubrovnik area (<10), and in Radonic (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Braica is present in 14 countries worldwide. The family name "Braica " is used by some 400 people in Romania , about 200 in the United States , and some 100 people in Argentina.

Characteristic first names

Silvio Braica, Ante Braica, Pero Braica, Darko Braica, Žarko Braica, Marko Braica, Lenka Braica, Vitomir Braica, Gordana Braica, Damir Braica, Ivana Braica, Nada Braica, Tomislav Braica, Žaklina Braica, Sandra Braica, Marinela Braica, Ksenija Braica, Ivica Braica, Antonija Braica

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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