Surname Gržinčić in modern Croatia

Gržinčić families are Croats and they are mostly from Opatija area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Opatija area. In Klana in Opatija area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Gržinčić.

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Gržinčić live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Klana in Opatija area (90), Rijeka (25), Studena in Opatija area (10), Zagreb (10), and in Delnice (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (2), Germany (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Gržinčić (including: Grzincic , Grzincich ) is present in 13 countries on four continents. The family name "Grzincic " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 80 in Papua New Guinea , and small number of people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Boris Gržinčić, Darko Gržinčić, Alen Gržinčić, Kristijan Gržinčić, Albert Gržinčić, Marino Gržinčić, Marin Gržinčić, Goran Gržinčić, Alenka Gržinčić, Maksim Gržinčić, Dubravka Gržinčić, Jagoda Gržinčić, Domagoj Gržinčić, Gvozden Gržinčić, Gabriel Gržinčić, Mario Gržinčić, Željko Gržinčić, Dražen Gržinčić, Iva Gržinčić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1930 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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