Surname Kapitanović in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 440 people with faimily name Kapitanović live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Split (125), Solin (70), Donje Ogorje in Sinj area (60), Biograd na moru (50), and in Zadar (35).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the Netherlands (1), the United States (1), Switzerland (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Kapitanović (including: Kapitanovic , Kapitanovich ) is present in 15 countries worldwide. "Kapitanovich " is used by small number of people in Russian Federation , small number in Ukraine , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zdenka Kapitanović, Vicko Kapitanović, Milan Kapitanović, Sanja Kapitanović, Ante Kapitanović, Anamarija Kapitanović, Slavenka Kapitanović, Jadranka Kapitanović, Ivana Kapitanović, Brankica Kapitanović, Danijela Kapitanović, Branko Kapitanović, Ivica Kapitanović, Daniel Kapitanović, Marko Kapitanović, Edi Kapitanović, Dragan Kapitanović, Ljubica Kapitanović, Zoran Kapitanović

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1749 in source 18th Century Census.

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