Surname Dražina in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Dražina live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, in 6 cities and four other places, mostly in Pristeg (30), Zadar (25), Benkovac (<10), Zagreb (<10), and in Gorica in Zadar area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Dražina (including: Drazina , Drazhina ) is present in 9 countries on three continents. The family name "Drazina " is used by small number of people in Australia and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Danka Dražina, Martin Dražina, Martina Dražina, Krešimir Dražina, Emil Dražina, Nataša Dražina, Dinko Dražina, Ljiljana Dražina, Davorka Dražina, Zvonko Dražina, Zrinka Dražina, Marijan Dražina, Snježana Dražina, Ivica Dražina, Olga Dražina, Helena Dražina, Dragica Dražina, Mile Dražina, Borislav Dražina

Mentions in sources

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

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