Surname Drobila in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Drobila families are generally Croats (from Samobor area ), very rarely Hungarians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Osijek.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Drobila live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Donji Stupnik in Samobor area (<10), Varazdin (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Strmec in Samobor area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Drobila is present in five countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Tomislav Drobila, Ana Drobila, Zdravko Drobila, Ratko Drobila, Tihomir Drobila, Ivan Drobila, Branimir Drobila, Draženka Drobila, Marijana Drobila, Ema Drobila, Evica Drobila, Slavica Drobila, Marija Drobila, Reza Drobila, Veronika Drobila, Mara Drobila, Vlado Drobila, Suzana Drobila, Terezija Drobila

Mentions in sources

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

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