Surname Hlača in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 190 people with faimily name Hlača live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and 25 other places, mostly in Rijeka (65), in Grobnik (25), Cavle (20) and Drazice (10) in Rijeka area, and in Zagreb (10).

Outside Croatia

At least one family with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Hlača (including: Hlaca , Chilaca and Chalaca ) is present in 14 countries worldwide. The family name "Hlaca " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Germany. "Chilaca " is used by some 700 people in Mexico , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Argentina. "Chalaca " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Bojan Hlača, Josipa Hlača, Viktor Hlača, Mirjana Hlača, Vinko Hlača, Nenad Hlača, Julijana Hlača, Leo Hlača, Zrinko Hlača, Iva Hlača, Žarko Hlača, Jasna Hlača, Martina Hlača, Marina Hlača, Mario Hlača, Željko Hlača, Milovan Hlača, Sven Hlača, Aleksandra Hlača

Mentions in sources

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

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