Surname Kraljić in modern Croatia

Kraljić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Krk. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cakovec. In Omišalj on the Island of Krk every seventh inhabitant had the family name Kraljić.

Prevalence

About 1500 people with faimily name Kraljić live in Croatia today, in 640 households. There were 1600 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 60 cities and 157 other places, mostly in Zagreb (190), Cakovec (80), Rijeka (75), Otocac (45), and in Omisalj on the Island of Krk (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 64 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (45), Australia (6), Germany (6), the United Kingdom (1), Switzerland (1), Belgium (1), France (1), Argentina (1), Canada (1), and to Austria (1).
Family name Kraljić (including: Kraljic , Kraljich ) is present in 19 countries worldwide. The family name "Kraljic " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 100 in Italy , and some 70 people in Zambia. "Kraljich " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zlatko Kraljić, Stjepan Kraljić, Mira Kraljić, Jadranka Kraljić, Bruno Kraljić, Ksenija Kraljić, Matija Kraljić, Žan Kraljić, Ivan Kraljić, Evica Kraljić, Goran Kraljić, Zdravko Kraljić, Ignac Kraljić, Damir Kraljić, Vedran Kraljić, Žarko Kraljić, Tomislav Kraljić, Vojko Kraljić, Josip Kraljić

Mentions in sources

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

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