Surname Karapandža in modern Croatia

Karapandža families are frequently Serbs and they are mostly from Glina , less frequently Croats. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and Glina. In Gornja Trebinja in Karlovac every fifth inhabitant had the family name Karapandža.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Karapandža live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Rijeka (<10), Osijek (<10), Karlovac (<10), and in Virovitica (<10).

Outside Croatia

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

Characteristic first names

Nikola Karapandža, Dejan Karapandža, Tatjana Karapandža, Irena Karapandža, Branko Karapandža, Anita Karapandža, Jadranka Karapandža, Zorislav Karapandža, Katica Karapandža, Marija Karapandža, Neda Karapandža, Nataša Karapandža, Aleksandar Karapandža, Saša Karapandža, Milan Karapandža, Petar Karapandža, Zrinka Karapandža, Borivoj Karapandža, Slobodan Karapandža

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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