Surname Loina in modern Croatia

Loina families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Krapina area. In Vrtnjakovec in Krapina area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Loina.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Loina live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 90 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Kastel Gomilica (15), Prosenik Gubasevski (<10), Popovaca in Kutina area (<10), and in Donji Miholjac (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Loina is present in 20 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Darko Loina, Miljenko Loina, Nenad Loina, Branko Loina, Karmela Loina, Stephan Loina, Marko Loina, Tatjana Loina, Dario Loina, Ivan Loina, Domagoj Loina, Snježana Loina, Tomislav Loina, Ivana Loina, Mladen Loina, Štefica Loina, Romeo Loina, Sanja Loina, Maja Loina

Mentions in sources

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

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