Surname Manzoni in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Manzoni live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are only located in in 7 Croatian cities and 9 other places, mostly in Punat on the Island of Krk (20), Rijeka (10), Sutivan on the Island of Brac (10), Zagreb (<10), and in Mali Losinj on the Island of Losinj (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (6) and France (3).
Family name Manzoni is present in 53 countries worldwide. "Manzonie " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Anka Manzoni, Rita Manzoni, Marinka Manzoni, Željka Manzoni, Lučana Manzoni, Željko Manzoni, Anton Manzoni, Darinka Manzoni, Ivana Manzoni, Alojzij Manzoni, Ivan Manzoni, Branko Manzoni, Antonela Manzoni, Vladimir Manzoni, Marija Manzoni, Andrea Manzoni, Sven Manzoni, Giorgio Manzoni, Piero Manzoni

Mentions in sources

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

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