Surname Giba in modern Croatia

Giba families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area and in Virovitica.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Giba live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties and 14 other places, mostly in Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (50), Zagreb (15), Spisic Bukovica in Virovitica area (15), Virovitica (<10), and in Djurdjevac (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Giba (including: Gibba , Ghiba , Gibbah , Gyba , Gibah , Gierba and Gieba ) is present in 50 countries worldwide. "Gibba " is used by some 5000 people in Gambia , about 100 in Brazil , and some 60 people in the United States. "Gyba " is used by small number of people in Canada and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Žarko Giba, Damir Giba, Branko Giba, Zdravka Giba, Zdenka Giba, Gordana Giba, Željko Giba, Zdravko Giba, Goran Giba, Marija Giba, Željka Giba, Vlasta Giba, Nenad Giba, Andreja Giba, Tomo Giba, Antun Giba, Dalibor Giba, Tomas Giba, Josip Giba

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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