Surname Klobas in modern Croatia

Klobas families are Croats and they are mostly from Buzet. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rijeka.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Klobas live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 14 other places, mostly in Rijeka (15), Pula (10), Labin (10), Buzet (<10), and in Zagreb (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least 15 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (4), Sweden (3), the United States (2), Argentina (2), the Netherlands (1), Canada (1), France (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Klobas (including: Khlobas , Klobás and Clobas ) is present in 15 countries worldwide. The family name "Klobas " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 80 in Australia , and small number of people in Czech Republic.

Characteristic first names

Valter Klobas, Nino Klobas, Gordana Klobas, Zlatko Klobas, Meri Klobas, Snježana Klobas, Roland Klobas, Ana Klobas, Miljenko Klobas, Đani Klobas, Leo Klobas, Barbara Klobas, Petra Klobas, Malvina Klobas, Blaženka Klobas, Aldo Klobas, Mirjana Klobas, Rino Klobas, Laris Klobas

Mentions in sources

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

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