Surname Morra in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Longer families are Croats (from Glina area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Glina area.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Longer live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Veli Losinj on the Island of Losinj (<10), Topusko in Glina area (<5), Novigrad (<5), and in Hrvatsko Selo in Glina area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Longer is present in 23 countries worldwide. The family name "Longer " is used by some 2000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo , about 300 in the United States , and some 100 people in France.

Characteristic first names

Jerko Morra, Blaženka Morra, Dubravko Morra, Ivica Morra, Nikola Morra, Mara Morra, Mate Morra, Marija Morra, Tereza Morra, Milka Morra, Josip Morra, Tomislav Morra, Ljuba Morra, Ela Morra, Anka Morra, Franjica Morra, Kata Morra, Katarina Morra, Katica Morra

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1936 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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