Surname Krijan.

  • Surname Krijan in modern Croatia

    Krijan families are Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanski Brod area) and in Slavonski Brod. In Koraće in Bosanian Posavina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Krijan.

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  • Prevalence

    About 400 people with faimily name Krijan live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 33 other places, mostly in Slavonski Brod (220), Zagreb (45), Zbjeg in Pleternica area (15), Zbandaj (15), and in Sesvete (10).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Krijan (including: Cheriyan , Ceriyan , Choriyan , Keriyan , Kriyan , Khriyan , Churiyan , Chiriyan and Crijan ) is present in 39 countries worldwide. The family name "Krijan " is used by small number of people in Germany , small number in the United States , and small number of people in France.

  • Characteristic first names

    Miroslav Krijan, Maja Krijan, Dražen Krijan, Tomislav Krijan, Marko Krijan, Krešimir Krijan, Eva Krijan, Zdenka Krijan, Josip Krijan, Željko Krijan, Tihomir Krijan, Lidija Krijan, Grgo Krijan, Robert Krijan, Manda Krijan, Mario Krijan, Darko Krijan, Ankica Krijan, Svjetlana Krijan

  • Last name Krijan around the globe

    See the countries where surname Krijan is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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