Surname Krnjić in modern Croatia

Krnjić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. According to some sources they are from Stolac area (Bosnia), very rarely Bosniaks. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Brcko area) and in Doboj, Bosnia (Doboj area).

Prevalence

About 360 people with faimily name Krnjić live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 33 cities and 56 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Viskovci in Djakovo area (20), Krizevci (15), Nijemci in Vinkovci area (15), and in Vukovar (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Krnjić is present in 11 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Stanko Krnjić, Saša Krnjić, Kristina Krnjić, Jasna Krnjić, Alen Krnjić, Olga Krnjić, Nikica Krnjić, Danijela Krnjić, Dragan Krnjić, Srećko Krnjić, Vesna Krnjić, Emil Krnjić, Nada Krnjić, Lucija Krnjić, Edita Krnjić, Kata Krnjić, Blaženka Krnjić, Zdenko Krnjić, Ivan Krnjić

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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