Surname Klasić in modern Croatia

Klasić families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Krapina. In places Donje Jesenje and Prigorje in Krapina area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Klasić.

Prevalence

About 940 people with faimily name Klasić live in Croatia today, in 370 households. There were 780 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 38 cities and 108 other places, mostly in Zagreb (190), Josipovac (65), Donje Jesenje in Krapina area (60), Krapina (45), and in Draskovic in Novi Marof area (40).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), Austria (1), Switzerland (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Klasić (including: Klasic , Classick , Classic , Klassic , Clasic and Klasich ) is present in 28 countries worldwide. The family name "Klasic " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Australia. "Klassic " is used by small number of people in the Philippines and small number in the United States. "Classic " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number of people in South Africa.

Characteristic first names

Ksenija Klasić, Hrvoje Klasić, Vitomir Klasić, Mira Klasić, Ivan Klasić, Stjepan Klasić, Branka Klasić, Dragutin Klasić, Marijan Klasić, Otto Klasić, Branko Klasić, Ladislav Klasić, Mario Klasić, Nedjeljko Klasić, Nevenka Klasić, Romana Klasić, Branimir Klasić, Josip Klasić, Dijana Klasić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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