Surname Gruborović in modern Croatia

Gruborović families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Glina , often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Glina and Zagreb. In Mali Gradac in Glina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Gruborović.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Gruborović live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and four other places, mostly in Mali Gradac (20), Zagreb (20), Petrinja (<10), Glina (<10), and in Oroslavje (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least one family with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Gruborović is present in three countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Dušan Gruborović, Mira Gruborović, Ivan Gruborović, Savka Gruborović, Branka Gruborović, Sanja Gruborović, Mile Gruborović, Angina Gruborović, Vladimir Gruborović, Zoran Gruborović, Slavica Gruborović, Ilija Gruborović, Nada Gruborović, Nikola Gruborović, Ranko Gruborović, Drago Gruborović, Pavica Gruborović, Slobodanka Gruborović, Jasna Gruborović

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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