Surname Maroević in modern Croatia

Maroević families are Croats and they are mostly from Splitarea. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Maroević live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 12 cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar (20), Split (20), Rijeka (<10), and in Korcula on the Island of Korcula (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Maroević (including: Maroevic , Maroevich ) is present in 13 countries on four continents. "Maroevich " is used by some 80 people in Argentina and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Igor Maroević, Tonko Maroević, Janez Maroević, Sanja Maroević, Ivo Maroević, Dubravka Maroević, Tihomir Maroević, Marijan Maroević, Mislav Maroević, Frano Maroević, Tonči Maroević, Želimir Maroević, Antonija Maroević, Bjanka Maroević, Miroslav Maroević, Nikola Maroević, Jakša Maroević, Branka Maroević, Matko Maroević

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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