Surname Margetinac in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Margetinac families are almost entirely Croats (from Garesnica area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar and in Garesnica area.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Margetinac live in Croatia today, in 15 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and 7 other places, mostly in Velika Trnovitica in Garesnica area (<10), Garesnica (<10), Zagreb (<5), Kornic on the Island of Krk (<5), and in Bjelovar (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Margetinac is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Krešimir Margetinac, Jasna Margetinac, Boris Margetinac, Tanja Margetinac, Mario Margetinac, Manuela Margetinac, Dalibor Margetinac, Vedran Margetinac, Antun Margetinac, Milja Margetinac, Slavica Margetinac, Ankica Margetinac, Velibor Margetinac, Ivka Margetinac, Milan Margetinac, Miško Margetinac, Branko Margetinac, Jasenka Margetinac, Matija Margetinac

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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