Surname Jasprica in modern Croatia

Jasprica families are Croats and they are mostly from Janjine on Peljesac Penninsula. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on Peljesac Peninsula and in Dubrovnik. In Janjina on Peljesac Peninsula every sixth inhabitant had the family name Jasprica.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Jasprica live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Janjina on the Peljesac peninsula (35), Dubrovnik (15), Zagreb (<10), Rijeka (<10), and in Drace on the Peljesac peninsula (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Jasprica (including: Jasprizza , Yasprica ) is present in 7 countries on four continents. "Yasprica " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivona Jasprica, Nenad Jasprica, Olujka Jasprica, Dušan Jasprica, Matko Jasprica, Marija Jasprica, Danijela Jasprica, Darko Jasprica, Tina Jasprica, Stjepo Jasprica, Ines Jasprica, Darij Jasprica, Edis Jasprica, Bojana Jasprica, Niko Jasprica, Venera Jasprica, Sanja Jasprica, Kristina Jasprica, Damir Jasprica

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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