Surname Marohnić in modern Croatia

Marohnić families are Croats and they are mostly from Bakar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Bakar. In Zlobin in Bakar every seventh inhabitant had the family name Marohnić.

Prevalence

About 180 people with faimily name Marohnić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Rijeka (40), Zagreb (35), Zlobin (30), Smrika (15), and in Veli Dol (10).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (6) and Canada (3).
Family name Marohnić (including: Marohnic , Marohnich ) is present in 6 countries on two continents. The family name "Marohnic " is used by some 300 people in the United States and small number in Canada. "Marohnich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Viktor Marohnić, Ivan Marohnić, Miljenko Marohnić, Renata Marohnić, Branimir Marohnić, Marinko Marohnić, Arsen Marohnić, Krešimir Marohnić, Josip Marohnić, Martina Marohnić, Denis Marohnić, Željko Marohnić, Dario Marohnić, Damir Marohnić, Ivanka Marohnić, Radovan Marohnić, Đino Marohnić, Ljiljana Marohnić, Rafael Marohnić

Mentions in sources

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

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