Surname Brkarić in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Brkarić live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Rijeka (20), Pula (<10), Presika (<5), Gundinci in Djakovo area (<5), and in Susnjevica in Labin area (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least 15 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (12), Australia (2), and to Germany (1).
Family name Brkarić is present in two countries on two continents. The family name "Brkaric " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Marin Brkarić, Guido Brkarić, Alen Brkarić, Igor Brkarić, Zlatko Brkarić, Elisabetta Brkarić, Željka Brkarić, Jasmina Brkarić, Marko Brkarić, Kristof Brkarić, Ira Brkarić, Tatjana Brkarić, Zvjezdana Brkarić, Nenad Brkarić, Ivan Brkarić, Manda Brkarić, Vanja Brkarić, Adriana Brkarić, Branka Brkarić

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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