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Surname Marijan in modern Croatia
Marijan families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Krajina , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosnian Krajina (Prijedor area) and in Western Bosnia (Livno area). In Briševo in Bosnian Krajina every seventh inhabitant had the family name Marijan.
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Prevalence
About 500 people with faimily name Marijan live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 360 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 39 cities and 50 other places, mostly in Zagreb (140), Rijeka (25), Velika Gorica (20), Split (20), and in Jelsa on the Island of Hvar (20).
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Outside Croatia
At least 13 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (5), Austria (2), Norway (1), the United Kingdom (1), Argentina (1), Switzerland (1), the United States (1), and to France (1).
Family name Marijan (including: Mariyan , Mariean , Mariaan , Marietan , Marieann , Mahriyan , Mariepan , Mariyann and Mariian ) is present in 33 countries worldwide.
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Characteristic first names
Mladen Marijan,
Anto Marijan,
Sanja Marijan,
Ranko Marijan,
Boško Marijan,
Matko Marijan,
Dražen Marijan,
Tatjana Marijan,
Zoran Marijan,
Dragica Marijan,
Nataša Marijan,
Nenad Marijan,
Vesna Marijan,
Davor Marijan,
Dinko Marijan,
Goran Marijan,
Srećko Marijan,
Dragan Marijan,
Dario Marijan
