Surname Brkljačić in modern Croatia

Brkljačić families are Croats and they are mostly from Gospic. According to some sources they are from Konjsko near Klis. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic and Zagreb. In Trnovac in Gospic every fourth inhabitant had the family name Brkljačić.

Prevalence

About 780 people with faimily name Brkljačić live in Croatia today, in 360 households. There were 880 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 42 cities and 54 other places, mostly in Zagreb (240), Gospic (115), Split (55), Solin (50), and in Rijeka (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 21 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (7), the United States (6), Canada (4), Australia (2), France (1), and to Norway (1).
Family name Brkljačić (including: Brkljacic , Brkljacich ) is present in 16 countries on four continents. The family name "Brkljacic " is used by some 300 people in Argentina , about 70 in the United States , and some 60 people in Canada. "Brkljacich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mario Brkljačić, Ivana Brkljačić, Boris Brkljačić, Neva Brkljačić, Ana Brkljačić, Maja Brkljačić, Marija Brkljačić, Dubravka Brkljačić, Ivanka Brkljačić, Mirna Brkljačić, Olja Brkljačić, Đurđica Brkljačić, Darko Brkljačić, Tihana Brkljačić, Josip Brkljačić, Zvonko Brkljačić, Kristian Brkljačić, Krunoslav Brkljačić, Marijan Brkljačić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1691 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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