Surname Gavran in modern Croatia

Gavran families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from Doboj area (Bosnia), rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Doboj, Bosnia (Doboj area) and in Bosanian Posavina (Derventa area). In places Ularice and Prnjavor Veliki in Doboj area, BiH every sixth inhabitant had the family name Gavran.

Prevalence

About 1200 people with faimily name Gavran live in Croatia today, in 480 households. There were 290 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 63 cities and 119 other places, mostly in Zagreb (295), Slavonski Brod (110), Sesvete (40), Donji Andrijevci in Djakovo area (40), and in Sibinj in Slavonski Brod area (40).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gavran (including: Gawran , Gaveran ) is present in 21 countries on four continents. The family name "Gavran " is used by some 200 people in Ukraine , about 100 in Germany , and some 100 people in the United States. "Gawran " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Gavran, Miro Gavran, Zdravko Gavran, Vesna Gavran, Mato Gavran, Đuro Gavran, Krešimir Gavran, Ante Gavran, Ilija Gavran, Cvitko Gavran, Nenad Gavran, Ana Gavran, Pejo Gavran, Boris Gavran, Ilka Gavran, Gabrijela Gavran, Mario Gavran, Niko Gavran, Davor Gavran

Mentions in sources

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

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