Surname Korenić in modern Croatia

Korenić families are Croats and they are mostly from Rovinj area. According to some sources they are from Lika. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac. In Korenići in Rovinj area every second inhabitant had the family name Korenić.

Prevalence

About 280 people with faimily name Korenić live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 440 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 37 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Pula (25), Rovinj (20), Korenici in Rovinj area (20), and in Trg (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 12 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (3), the United States (3), Canada (2), Argentina (1), Sweden (1), Switzerland (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Korenić (including: Korenic , Korenich , Corenich and Koreniec ) is present in 12 countries on four continents. The family name "Korenic " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 100 in Canada , and small number of people in Australia. "Korenich " is used by some 70 people in the United States and small number in Venezuela.

Characteristic first names

Amedeo Korenić, Marijan Korenić, Grazia Korenić, Biljana Korenić, Renata Korenić, Hrvoje Korenić, Dragutin Korenić, Nevenka Korenić, Emil Korenić, David Korenić, Ivan Korenić, Dalibor Korenić, Marino Korenić, Ivanka Korenić, Dražen Korenić, Martina Korenić, Stjepan Korenić, Andrej Korenić, Đuro Korenić

Mentions in sources

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

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