Surname Cvrlje in modern Croatia

Cvrlje families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 190 people with faimily name Cvrlje live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Glavice (75), Zagreb (50), Split (40), Sinj (30), and in Brnaze (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Cvrlje is present in four countries on three continents. The family name "Cvrlje " is used by some 60 people in Germany and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Milica Cvrlje, Marija Cvrlje, Goran Cvrlje, Vitomir Cvrlje, Ivana Cvrlje, Ivo Cvrlje, Joško Cvrlje, Ivica Cvrlje, Jelena Cvrlje, Igor Cvrlje, Katja Cvrlje, Vjekoslav Cvrlje, Liljana Cvrlje, Mirjana Cvrlje, Ljiljana Cvrlje, Gordana Cvrlje, Srđan Cvrlje, Dario Cvrlje, Daniela Cvrlje

Mentions in sources

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

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