Surname Katalina in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Katalina families are Croats by relative majority (from Nova Gradiska area ), equally Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Banja Luka Region, Bosnia (Banja Luka area) and in Hrvatska Kostajnica area.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Katalina live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Crkveni Bok in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (<10), Staro Petrovo Selo in Nova Gradiska area (<5), Split (<5), Zadar (<5), and in Stivica in Nova Gradiska area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Katalina (including: Catalina , Cathalina ) is present in 63 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Mihajlo Katalina, Željko Katalina, Anto Katalina, Mara Katalina, Stojan Katalina, Milica Katalina, Ana Katalina, Milosav Katalina, Anka Katalina, Dosta Katalina, Jelica Katalina, Marko Katalina, Nikola Katalina, Emilija Katalina, Slavica Katalina, Sofija Katalina, Milan Katalina, Dejan Katalina, Boro Katalina

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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