Surname Grahovac in modern Croatia

Grahovac families are frequently Croats and they are mostly from Otocac. According to some sources they are from Novigrad Podravski near Koprivnica. Grahovci can be Serbs and Montenegrins. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Otocac. In Ramljani in Otocac every fourth inhabitant had the family name Grahovac.

Prevalence

About 1000 people with faimily name Grahovac live in Croatia today, in 480 households. There were 1000 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 56 cities and 116 other places, mostly in Zagreb (230), Rijeka (65), Slatina (45), Ramljani (45), and in Velika Gorica (40).

Outside Croatia

At least 15 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (5), the United States (3), Australia (3), Sweden (2), Switzerland (1), and to Argentina (1).
Family name Grahovac is present in 29 countries worldwide. The family name "Grahovac " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 300 in Germany , and some 200 people in Austria.

Characteristic first names

Bogdan Grahovac, Dejan Grahovac, Blaženka Grahovac, Tripo Grahovac, Ivana Grahovac, Klara Grahovac, Branko Grahovac, Petar Grahovac, Željko Grahovac, Zoran Grahovac, Zdenko Grahovac, Klaudina Grahovac, Stjepan Grahovac, Goran Grahovac, Željka Grahovac, Franjo Grahovac, Momčilo Grahovac, Anton Grahovac, Joso Grahovac

Mentions in sources

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

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