Surname Kaštelančić in modern Croatia

Kaštelančić families are Croats and they are mostly from Solin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and in Solin area. In Podstrana in Solin area every third inhabitant had the family name Kaštelančić.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Kaštelančić live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Podstrana in Solin area (50), Zagreb (<10), Split (<10), Ploce (<5), and in Vrbanj on the Island of Hvar (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kaštelančić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Zdravko Kaštelančić, Jadranka Kaštelančić, Vesna Kaštelančić, Ante Kaštelančić, Tomislav Kaštelančić, Marin Kaštelančić, Senka Kaštelančić, Anka Kaštelančić, Anita Kaštelančić, Ivanka Kaštelančić, Robert Kaštelančić, Paulo Kaštelančić, Fabjan Kaštelančić, Marija Kaštelančić, Barbara Kaštelančić, Ivica Kaštelančić, Maja Kaštelančić, Matijana Kaštelančić, Sabina Kaštelančić

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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