Surname Dobrila in modern Croatia

Dobrila families are Croats and they are mostly from Pazin. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Pula. In Mali Dol in Kraljevica every fifth inhabitant had the family name Dobrila.

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Dobrila live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 250 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Rijeka (35), Pazin (30), Pula (20), Crikvenica (<10), and in Porec (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Dobrila (including: Dobrelya , Dobrilla ) is present in 21 countries worldwide. The family name "Dobrila " is used by some 1000 people in Romania , about 60 in the United States , and small number of people in Spain. "Dobrilla " is used by some 100 people in Italy , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Argentina.

Characteristic first names

Fran Dobrila, Franjo Dobrila, Duško Dobrila, David Dobrila, Stanko Dobrila, Goran Dobrila, Ivan Dobrila, Smilja Dobrila, Zlatko Dobrila, Marija Dobrila, Lucijan Dobrila, Đino Dobrila, Nino Dobrila, Antica Dobrila, Dražen Dobrila, Nikola Dobrila, Roberta Dobrila, Juraj Dobrila, Aleksandra Dobrila

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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