Surname Crljenić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Crljenić families are Croats (from Donji Miholjac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Donji Miholjac area and in Osijek.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Crljenić live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Viljevo in Donji Miholjac area (15), Osijek (10), Belisce (<10), Petrijevci in Valpovo area (<10), and in Virovitica (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Crljenić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Boris Crljenić, Ivanka Crljenić, Tomislav Crljenić, Nada Crljenić, Dalibor Crljenić, Ivana Crljenić, Željko Crljenić, Miroslav Crljenić, Kristina Crljenić, Ružica Crljenić, Zvonimir Crljenić, Janja Crljenić, Branka Crljenić, Svjetlana Crljenić, Branimir Crljenić, Josip Crljenić, Mato Crljenić, Ivan Crljenić, Vlatko Crljenić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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