Surname Drljan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Drljan families are Croats by relative majority (from Glina ), equally Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Glina and Sisak.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Drljan live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and 6 other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Petrinja (<10), Glina (<5), Majske Poljane (<5), and in Luscani (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Drljan is present in 7 countries on four continents.

Characteristic first names

Željko Drljan, Dalibor Drljan, Aleksandar Drljan, Nada Drljan, Mirjana Drljan, Ranko Drljan, Dragica Drljan, Igor Drljan, Robert Drljan, Milka Drljan, Željka Drljan, Gojko Drljan, Dušan Drljan, Katarina Drljan, Mika Drljan, Stoja Drljan, Zorka Drljan, Milica Drljan, Lazo Drljan

Mentions in sources

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

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