Surname Gjirlić in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Gjirlić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled.
They are located in four Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Radosic in Kastela area (20), Kastel Stari (15), Zagreb (10), Split (<10), and in Kastel Novi (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gjirlić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Gloria Gjirlić, Jasna Gjirlić, Antonija Gjirlić, Mario Gjirlić, Marko Gjirlić, Magdalena Gjirlić, Milica Gjirlić, Josip Gjirlić, Ivo Gjirlić, Jela Gjirlić, Marijan Gjirlić, Luka Gjirlić, Ivan Gjirlić, Maja Gjirlić, Maris Gjirlić, Anka Gjirlić, Nikola Gjirlić, Jakov Gjirlić, Đurđica Gjirlić

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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