Surname Furlan in modern Croatia

Furlan families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Otocac area , rarely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka.

Prevalence

About 300 people with faimily name Furlan live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 460 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 34 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Rijeka (25), Sisak (20), Otocac (15), and in Bjelovar (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Canada (4), the United States (2), Germany (2), Australia (1), Uruguay (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Furlan is present in 58 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Zvonimir Furlan, Tomislav Furlan, Antonio Furlan, Stjepan Furlan, Goran Furlan, Dubravko Furlan, Ivan Furlan, Veljko Furlan, Jelena Furlan, Dijana Furlan, Nikola Furlan, Miro Furlan, Andreja Furlan, Zorka Furlan, Zdravko Furlan, Darko Furlan, Dragan Furlan, Nikica Furlan, Zoran Furlan

Mentions in sources

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

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