Surname Moro in modern Croatia

Moro families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area , rarely Italians (from Pakrac ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj area and in Pakrac. In Crivac in Sinj area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Moro.

Prevalence

About 160 people with faimily name Moro live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 80 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Crivac in Sinj area (20), Split (20), Obrovac Sinjski (15), and in Dubrovnik (10).

Outside Croatia

At least ten families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (4), the United States (3), France (2), and to Canada (1).
Family name Moro (including: Morro , Mhoro , Mmoro , Moroh , Móro , Moró , Mooro , Moroo and Móró ) is present in 129 countries worldwide. "Morro " is used by some 1000 people in Spain , about 1000 in Brazil , and some 800 people in the United States. "Moroh " is used by small number of people in Kenya and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ljiljana Moro, Maja Moro, Dušan Moro, Alan Moro, Ivan Moro, Spasenija Moro, Linda Moro, Zvonimir Moro, Mario Moro, Stana Moro, Ivančica Moro, Saša Moro, Zdenko Moro, Mirjana Moro, Katica Moro, Marijana Moro, Braco Moro, Josip Moro, Slavko Moro

Mentions in sources

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

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