Surname Koraca in modern Croatia

Koraca families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Pazin area , rarely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pazin and Pula. In Vejaki in Porec area nearly every inhabitant had the family name Koraca.

Prevalence

About 260 people with faimily name Koraca live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in four Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Visnjan in Porec area (25), Pula (25), Umag (20), Rakotule in Pazin area (20), and in Pazin (20).

Outside Croatia

At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (3), Australia (3), France (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Koraca (including: Corazza , Coraza , Koracha , Coratza , Corrazza , Corraza , Korazza and Cioraca ) is present in 34 countries worldwide. The family name "Koraca " is used by small number of people in Canada , small number in the Philippines , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Alceo Koraca, Daria Koraca, Danijel Koraca, Dolores Koraca, Bruno Koraca, Ener Koraca, Luka Koraca, Željko Koraca, Dario Koraca, Dean Koraca, Marko Koraca, Sendi Koraca, Rino Koraca, Roberto Koraca, Suzana Koraca, Damir Koraca, Milivoj Koraca, Ružica Koraca, Valter Koraca

Mentions in sources

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

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