Surname Jazvac in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Jazvac live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and four other places, mostly in Draganic in Karlovac area (70), Karlovac (<10), Tuskani (<5), Koritinja (<5), and in Mrzljaki in Duga Resa area (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Canada (5), the United States (4), Germany (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Jazvac is present in four countries on two continents. The family name "Jazvac " is used by some 90 people in Canada and small number in the United States. "Yazvac " is used by some 100 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Jazvac, Petar Jazvac, Alen Jazvac, Elvis Jazvac, Hrvoje Jazvac, Vesna Jazvac, Ivica Jazvac, Marijan Jazvac, Mladen Jazvac, Renata Jazvac, Ignacije Jazvac, Darko Jazvac, Ivančica Jazvac, Ljiljanka Jazvac, Boris Jazvac, Zdravko Jazvac, Lori Jazvac, Nikola Jazvac, Ivan Jazvac

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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