Surname Mažuranić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Mažuranić families are almost entirely Croats (from Novi Vinodolski ), barely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Mažuranić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 80 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and another small place , mostly in Zagreb (20), Novi Vinodolski (15), Rijeka (10), Samobor (<10), and in Karlovac (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (2), Australia (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Mažuranić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Ivica Mažuranić, Jasna Mažuranić, Damir Mažuranić, Dragica Mažuranić, Jelena Mažuranić, Vlasta Mažuranić, Karmen Mažuranić, Vesna Mažuranić, Željko Mažuranić, Ivan Mažuranić, Vinko Mažuranić, Matija Mažuranić, Vladimir Mažuranić, Fran Mažuranić, Antun Mažuranić, Stjepan Mažuranić, Bogoslav Mažuranić, Milutin Mažuranić, Želimir Mažuranić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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