Surname Ivanov in modern Croatia

Ivanov families are often Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Ugljan , barely Macedonians and Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and on the Island of Ugljan. In places Poljana and Lukoran on the Island of Ugljan every seventh inhabitant had the family name Ivanov.

Prevalence

About 390 people with faimily name Ivanov live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 360 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Zadar (160), Zagreb (45), Rijeka (35), Poljana on the Island of Ugljan (25), and in Rovinj (25).

Outside Croatia

At least 14 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (5), Australia (4), France (3), Germany (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Ivanov (including: Iwanow , Ivanow , Ivannov , Ivanovv , Ivvanov , Ivaanov , Ivanoov , Iivanov and Ivahnov ) is present in 127 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Bernard Ivanov, Lozena Ivanov, Marijana Ivanov, Miroslav Ivanov, Vladimir Ivanov, Denis Ivanov, Viktorija Ivanov, Tomo Ivanov, Rade Ivanov, Damir Ivanov, Erik Ivanov, Sergey Ivanov, Ivica Ivanov, Kata Ivanov, Andrej Ivanov, Raško Ivanov, Valerija Ivanov, Stoyan Ivanov, Samel Ivanov

Mentions in sources

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

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