Surname Kljaić in modern Croatia

Kljaić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina , often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanski Brod area) and in Slavonski Brod.

Prevalence

About 680 people with faimily name Kljaić live in Croatia today, in 350 households. There were 1000 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 50 cities and 101 other places, mostly in Zagreb (115), Slavonski Brod (110), Bosnjaci in Zupanja area (50), Zupanja (40), and in Osijek (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 16 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (6), Australia (4), the United States (3), Sweden (2), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Kljaić (including: Kljaic , Kljaich , Klyaich and Klyaic ) is present in 16 countries on three continents. The family name "Kljaic " is used by some 80 people in Australia , about 60 in the United States , and some 50 people in Sweden. "Kljaich " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Klyaic " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dubravka Kljaić, Ante Kljaić, Josip Kljaić, Petra Kljaić, Ksenija Kljaić, Zdenko Kljaić, Nenad Kljaić, Slavko Kljaić, Darko Kljaić, Jasenka Kljaić, Tihomir Kljaić, Drago Kljaić, Marija Kljaić, Zoran Kljaić, Dejan Kljaić, Čedomil Kljaić, Joško Kljaić, Mirna Kljaić, Željka Kljaić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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