Surname Giacometti in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Giacometti families are mainly Italians (from Pula area ), less frequently Croats (from Bjelovar area ), and very rarely Czechs (also from Bjelovar area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Pakrac. In Veliki Banovac in Pakrac every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Giacometti.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Giacometti live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are only located in four Croatian cities and four other places, mostly in Vodnjan in Pula area (15), Veliki Banovac (<10), Nova Raca in Bjelovar area (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Cikovici (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Giacometti is present in 30 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Fabio Giacometti, Lino Giacometti, Jasminka Giacometti, Danica Giacometti, Kristina Giacometti, Maja Giacometti, Rita Giacometti, Zdravka Giacometti, Claudio Giacometti, Laura Giacometti, Ivan Giacometti, Elio Giacometti, Davor Giacometti, Zdenka Giacometti, Michela Giacometti, Veneranda Giacometti, Imbro Giacometti, Štefanija Giacometti, Irma Giacometti

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1928 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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