Surname Lovrinić in modern Croatia

Lovrinić families are Croats and they are mostly from Ozalj. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ozalj and Zagreb. In Svetičko Hrašće in Ozalj every ninth inhabitant had the family name Lovrinić.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Lovrinić live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Sveticko Hrasce (20), Zagreb (15), Pazin (15), Karlovac (<10), and in Vukovar (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (2), France (2), Canada (1), the United States (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Lovrinić (including: Lovrinic , Lovrinich ) is present in five countries on three continents. The family name "Lovrinic " is used by some 60 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dinko Lovrinić, Lada Lovrinić, Stjepan Lovrinić, Marijan Lovrinić, Elena Lovrinić, Robert Lovrinić, Miroslav Lovrinić, Đino Lovrinić, Nada Lovrinić, Radmila Lovrinić, Anđelo Lovrinić, Emidio Lovrinić, Marica Lovrinić, Rita Lovrinić, Ksenija Lovrinić, Vanja Lovrinić, Nikola Lovrinić, Ivan Lovrinić, Zorica Lovrinić

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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