Surname Kvakić in modern Croatia

Kvakić families are najvise Croats the family name originates from Glina , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Glina and Zagreb. In Svračica in Glina every sixth inhabitant had the family name Kvakić.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Kvakić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Sisak (<10), Viskovo in Rijeka area (<10), Dolnjaki (<10), and in Nova Gradiska (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kvakić is present in 8 countries on two continents. The family name "Kvakic " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number of people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Milka Kvakić, Ivanka Kvakić, Zinka Kvakić, Dejana Kvakić, Marijana Kvakić, Hatidža Kvakić, Stjepan Kvakić, Miroslav Kvakić, Jelena Kvakić, Tomislav Kvakić, Gabrijel Kvakić, Josip Kvakić, Danijel Kvakić, Nikola Kvakić, Ivan Kvakić, Teodor Kvakić, Marko Kvakić, Mira Kvakić, Nada Kvakić

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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