Surname Gračanin in modern Croatia

Gračanin families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from Ogulin area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ogulin and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 290 people with faimily name Gračanin live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 390 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 26 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Ostarije in Ogulin area (70), Rijeka (30), Josipdol in Ogulin area (25), and in Ogulin (20).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gračanin (including: Gracanin , Grachanin ) is present in 20 countries on four continents. The family name "Gracanin " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 60 in Australia , and small number of people in Germany. "Grachanin " is used by some 60 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Matija Gračanin, Asmir Gračanin, Marin Gračanin, Hrvoje Gračanin, Nikola Gračanin, Tomislav Gračanin, Miroslav Gračanin, Zlatko Gračanin, Željko Gračanin, Roland Gračanin, Branko Gračanin, Olga Gračanin, Lovorka Gračanin, Valentina Gračanin, Igor Gračanin, Martina Gračanin, Damir Gračanin, Gordana Gračanin, Zoran Gračanin

Mentions in sources

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

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