Surname Milovan in modern Croatia

Milovan families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Labin area , rarely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Labin area. In places Čabrunići and Režanci in Labin area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Milovan.

Prevalence

About 190 people with faimily name Milovan live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and 9 other places, mostly in Pula (75), in Cabrunici (40) and Rezanci (25) in Labin area, Vodnjan in Pula area (15), and in Zagreb (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least 21 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Sweden (6), the United States (6), Germany (4), France (2), Spain (1), Australia (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Milovan is present in 19 countries worldwide. The family name "Milovan " is used by some 200 people in Romania , about 60 in Italy , and small number of people in the United States. "Millovan " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Anton Milovan, Valter Milovan, Andrija Milovan, Zlatko Milovan, Mirko Milovan, Roberto Milovan, Željko Milovan, Marija Milovan, Marijan Milovan, Gordana Milovan, Allison Milovan, Vlado Milovan, Iva Milovan, Petar Milovan, Mirjana Milovan, Toni Milovan, Elvira Milovan, Ivan Milovan, Ondina Milovan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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