Surname Grdanić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Grdanić families are Croats (from Garesnica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Garesnica and in Garesnica area.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Grdanić live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Velika Trnava in Garesnica area (<10).

Outside Croatia

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

Characteristic first names

Sanja Grdanić, Željko Grdanić, Dragutin Grdanić, Ana Grdanić, Slavko Grdanić, Dragica Grdanić, Valentino Grdanić, Antonio Grdanić, Jela Grdanić, Anica Grdanić, Bara Grdanić, Ivan Grdanić, Jakob Grdanić, Jelica Grdanić, Jelka Grdanić, Marica Grdanić, Marija Grdanić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1926 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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