Surname Fabris in modern Croatia

Fabris families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Pazin area. According to some sources they are from Italy (provincija Veneto) tako da are rarely Italians (Pula). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Dubrovnik. In Kringa in Pazin area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Fabris.

Prevalence

About 400 people with faimily name Fabris live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 290 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 20 other places, mostly in Zagreb (60), Pula (45), Korcula on the Island of Korcula (40), Rovinj (40), and in Split (25).

Outside Croatia

At least 18 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (5), the United States (5), Canada (3), Germany (2), the Netherlands (1), Argentina (1), and to Belgium (1).
Family name Fabris (including: Fabbris , Fabries and Fabriss ) is present in 54 countries worldwide. "Fabries " is used by some 500 people in France , about 70 in the Netherlands , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Orest Fabris, Ivan Fabris, Ivona Fabris, Vinko Fabris, Gordana Fabris, Petar Fabris, Daniel Fabris, Kolja Fabris, Mirjana Fabris, Robert Fabris, Vanesa Fabris, Dario Fabris, Josip Fabris, Joško Fabris, Klaudio Fabris, Ruggero Fabris, Davor Fabris, Mladen Fabris, Martina Fabris

Mentions in sources

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

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