Surname Damiani in modern Croatia

Damiani families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Buje , but often Italians (also from Buje ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Buje and in Slovenia. In Lozari in Buje every third inhabitant had the family name Damiani.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Damiani live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Umag (15), Valica (<10), Lozari (<10), Vodnjan in Pula area (<10), and in Zagreb (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (2) and Australia (1).
Family name Damiani (including: Damiany , Damyani ) is present in 72 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Alessandro Damiani, Kristian Damiani, Suzana Damiani, Silvano Damiani, Davor Damiani, Moris Damiani, Elvis Damiani, Livio Damiani, Deana Damiani, Sabina Damiani, Kristina Damiani, Sara Damiani, Flavio Damiani, Adrijana Damiani, Sandro Damiani, Aleks Damiani, Martina Damiani, Vatroslav Damiani, Alessandra Damiani

Mentions in sources

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

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