Surname Klaić in modern Croatia

Klaić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. According to some sources from Konavle, Like or Slavonia, rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Orasje area) and in Zagreb. In Donja Mahala in Bosanian Posavina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Klaić.

Prevalence

About 700 people with faimily name Klaić live in Croatia today, in 310 households. There were 690 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 40 cities and 46 other places, mostly in Zagreb (130), Zupanja (120), Popovici in Dubrovnik area (45), Osijek (30), and in Lipik (25).

Outside Croatia

Family name Klaić (including: Klaic , Klaich , Claici , Claiche and Claich ) is present in 24 countries worldwide. "Klaich " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 60 in Argentina , and small number of people in Thailand. "Claich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Boris Klaić, Aleksandar Klaić, Miroslav Klaić, Željko Klaić, Domagoj Klaić, Ivan Klaić, Mato Klaić, Miho Klaić, Mladen Klaić, Dubravko Klaić, Branimir Klaić, Irena Klaić, Zvonimir Klaić, Darko Klaić, Radovan Klaić, Snježana Klaić, Pero Klaić, Dragan Klaić, Tomislav Klaić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over sixty times, the first time 1750 in source 18th Century Census.

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