Surname Cvetnić in modern Croatia

Cvetnić families are Croats and they are mostly from Koprivnica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sisak. In Mraclin in Velika Gorica every seventh inhabitant had the family name Cvetnić.

Prevalence

About 310 people with faimily name Cvetnić live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 510 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Velika Gorica (75), Zagreb (35), Sisak (25), Gornja Toplicica (25), and in Legrad in Koprivnica area (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 22 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Switzerland (6), Australia (5), the United States (5), Germany (4), and to Austria (2).
Family name Cvetnić (including: Cvetnic , Cvetnich and Cvetnick ) is present in 8 countries on three continents. The family name "Cvetnic " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Argentina. "Cvetnich " is used by some 50 people in the United States. "Cvetnick " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Cvetnić, Ratko Cvetnić, Sanja Cvetnić, Vladimir Cvetnić, Zdenka Cvetnić, Stjepan Cvetnić, Branka Cvetnić, Ljerka Cvetnić, Branko Cvetnić, Danica Cvetnić, Slavko Cvetnić, Snježana Cvetnić, Vlasta Cvetnić, Jasmina Cvetnić, Mirela Cvetnić, Katica Cvetnić, Franjo Cvetnić, Dragutin Cvetnić, Tereza Cvetnić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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