Surname Kranjc in modern Croatia

Kranjc families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Zagreb , barely Slovenes. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Slovenia.

Prevalence

About 180 people with faimily name Kranjc live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 20 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Karlovac (15), Varazdin (10), Pula (<10), and in Zapresic (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kranjc (including: Kranitz , Kranic , Kranicz , Kranyc , Kranych and Kraniz ) is present in 22 countries worldwide. The family name "Kranjc " is used by some 90 people in the United States , about 80 in Tanzania , and some 60 people in Canada. "Kranyc " is used by few people in Canada and few people in the United States. "Kranitz " is used by some 300 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vladimir Kranjc, Silvan Kranjc, Ivan Kranjc, Zvonko Kranjc, Lana Kranjc, Marijan Kranjc, Andrej Kranjc, Nikola Kranjc, Mihajlo Kranjc, Ljudevit Kranjc, Tanja Kranjc, Bruno Kranjc, Krešimir Kranjc, Valentina Kranjc, Svebor Kranjc, Radojka Kranjc, Marijana Kranjc, Tomislav Kranjc, Ines Kranjc

Mentions in sources

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

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