Surname Kristijan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kristijan families are Croats (from Bjelovar area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Samobor and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Kristijan live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and four other places, mostly in Porec (10), Bjelovar (<10), Zagreb (<10), Samobor (<10), and in Rude (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kristijan (including: Kristiyan , Khrishtiyan , Cristiean , Khristiyan , Kristiaan , Krystyjan , Khristhiyan , Cristiyan and Cristiaan ) is present in 27 countries worldwide. The family name "Kristijan " is used by few people in the United States. "Cristiean " is used by some 100 people in Romania and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vladimir Kristijan, Zdenko Kristijan, Rajka Kristijan, Petar Kristijan, Tihana Kristijan, Željko Kristijan, Ivan Kristijan, Leonardo Kristijan, Snežana Kristijan, Toni Kristijan, Dragutin Kristijan, Đurđica Kristijan, Marica Kristijan, Bruno Kristijan, Robert Kristijan, Marko Kristijan, Gracijela Kristijan, Marija Kristijan, Anton Kristijan

Mentions in sources

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

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