Surname Kunjašić in modern Croatia

Kunjašić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Korcula. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and on the Island of Korcula.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Kunjašić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located and 5 other Croatian places, mostly in Blato (30) and Smokvica (15) on the Island of Korcula, Split (10), Zagreb (<10), and in Vela Luka on the Island of Korcula (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (1) and Australia (1).
Family name Kunjašić (including: Kunjasic , Kunjasich ) is present in four countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Đino Kunjašić, Ilda Kunjašić, Neven Kunjašić, Ivanko Kunjašić, Jasminka Kunjašić, Ante Kunjašić, Milivoj Kunjašić, Igor Kunjašić, Tonči Kunjašić, Katija Kunjašić, Berislav Kunjašić, Zdravka Kunjašić, Jelena Kunjašić, Joakim Kunjašić, Frano Kunjašić, Biserka Kunjašić, Joško Kunjašić, Sanja Kunjašić, Žarko Kunjašić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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