Surname Brozina in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Brozina families are predominantly Croats (from Opatija area ), rarely Italians (from Opatija ), and barely Slovenes (from Rijeka ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Crikvenica. In Rupa in Opatija area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Brozina.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Brozina live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties and 5 other places, mostly in Rijeka (15), Opatija (10), Pula (<10), Zagreb (<10), and in Crikvenica (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Brozina (including: Brozyna , Brozhina , Brozhyna and Berozina ) is present in 18 countries on four continents. The family name "Brozina " is used by some 80 people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number in Czech Republic. "Brozyna " is used by some 1000 people in Poland , about 400 in the United States , and small number of people in Austria.

Characteristic first names

Milivoj Brozina, Rajna Brozina, Vilma Brozina, Maja Brozina, Andrej Brozina, Davor Brozina, Goran Brozina, Bojan Brozina, Mirjana Brozina, Denis Brozina, Pavao Brozina, Dolores Brozina, Vinko Brozina, Nikola Brozina, Sandra Brozina, Božidar Brozina, Ivan Brozina, Alenka Brozina, Vladimir Brozina

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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