Surname Carina in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Carina families are Croats (from Dugo Selo area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dugo Selo area. In Stančić in Dugo Selo area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Carina.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Carina live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Konak (<5), Stancic in Dugo Selo area (<5), Sesvete (<5), Varazdin (<5), and in Dugo Selo (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Carina (including: Zarina , Charina , Carinha , Carinah , Chaerina , Charyna , Cahrina , Caerina and Cariena ) is present in 74 countries worldwide. "Carinha " is used by some 200 people in Brazil , about 100 in Portugal , and small number of people in the United States. "Charyna " is used by some 50 people in Poland , small number in Canada , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Marijana Carina, Snježana Carina, Slavko Carina, Marijan Carina, Nada Carina, Vlasta Carina, Božica Carina, Jelena Carina, Dragutin Carina, Zora Carina, Pavao Carina, Manda Carina, Sanja Carina, Karolina Carina, Stjepan Carina, Danica Carina, Josipa Carina, Elizabeta Carina, Katica Carina

Mentions in sources

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

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