Surname Brajac in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Brajac families are Croats (from Kraljevica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Dubrovnik.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Brajac live in Croatia today, in 15 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are only located in threee Croatian cities and threee other places, mostly in Rijeka (<10), Smrika (<10), Lovran in Opatija area (<5), Kraljevica (<5), and in Hreljin (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (6) and Germany (1).
Family name Brajac (including: Brayac , Brajaz ) is present in 7 countries on three continents. The family name "Brajac " is used by small number of people in Canada and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ines Brajac, Darko Brajac, Sanja Brajac, Višnja Brajac, Katarina Brajac, Jasna Brajac, Igor Brajac, Dražen Brajac, Vladimir Brajac, Nada Brajac, Anerea Brajac, Mauro Brajac, Božica Brajac, Ivan Brajac, Ljerka Brajac, Helena Brajac, Giuliano Brajac, Marinko Brajac, Tomislav Brajac

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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