Surname Mataić in modern Croatia

Mataić families are Croats and they are mostly from Obrovac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slavonski Brod and in Obrovac area.

Prevalence

About 200 people with faimily name Mataić live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Slavonski Brod (30), Lovinac in Obrovac area (15), Bukovlje in Slavonski Brod area (15), and in Jazavica (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), France (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Mataić (including: Mataic , Mataich and Mataiche ) is present in 15 countries on four continents. The family name "Mataic " is used by small number of people in Australia and small number in the United States. "Mataiche " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Fedor Mataić, Igor Mataić, Ivica Mataić, Bruno Mataić, Vesna Mataić, Marko Mataić, Tomislav Mataić, Natalija Mataić, Goran Mataić, Majda Mataić, Mario Mataić, Ivan Mataić, Damir Mataić, Josip Mataić, Krešimir Mataić, Grga Mataić, Tamara Mataić, Tihomir Mataić, Ivana Mataić

Mentions in sources

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

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