Surname Habijan in modern Croatia

Habijan families are Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Varazdin.

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Habijan live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Belica in Cakovec area (25), Zagreb (15), Cakovec (10), Varazdin (10), and in Koprivnica (10).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), Australia (2), Switzerland (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Habijan is present in 11 countries on three continents. The family name "Habijan " is used by some 400 people in the Philippines , small number in Germany , and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Marija Habijan, Branko Habijan, Miroslav Habijan, Daroslav Habijan, Nikola Habijan, Smiljana Habijan, Stanislav Habijan, Igor Habijan, Gordana Habijan, Anđelko Habijan, Damir Habijan, Danijel Habijan, Slavko Habijan, Boris Habijan, Marijana Habijan, Verica Habijan, Goran Habijan, Mario Habijan, Manuela Habijan

Mentions in sources

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

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