Surname Maraković in modern Croatia

Maraković families are Croats and they are mostly from Karlovac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and Zagreb. In Ladvenjak in Karlovac every eighth inhabitant had the family name Maraković.

Prevalence

About 250 people with faimily name Maraković live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 310 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Karlovac (50), Ladvenjak (30), Cukur (20), and in Nova Gradiska (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Maraković (including: Marakovic , Marakhovich , Marakovich and Marakowich ) is present in 13 countries on four continents. "Marakowich " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Sanja Maraković, Jurica Maraković, Hrvoje Maraković, Draginja Maraković, Nikolina Maraković, Mladen Maraković, Vlado Maraković, Darko Maraković, Marijan Maraković, Vera Maraković, Alen Maraković, Martina Maraković, Davor Maraković, Saša Maraković, Zrinko Maraković, Ivan Maraković, Goran Maraković, Ljubomir Maraković, Ljuba Maraković

Mentions in sources

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

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