Surname Narančić in modern Croatia

Narančić families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Otocac , whereas often Croats (from Novigrad a). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Otocac and Zagreb. In Doljani in Otocac every third inhabitant had the family name Narančić.

Prevalence

About 460 people with faimily name Narančić live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 640 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 37 cities and 36 other places, mostly in Zagreb (100), Pridraga in Novigrad Area in Dalmatia (60), Bijelo Brdo in Vinkovci area (45), Rijeka (35), and in Doljani (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 17 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (4), Germany (4), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (2), Australia (2), Argentina (1), and to France (1).
Family name Narančić (including: Narancich , Narancic ) is present in 11 countries worldwide. The family name "Narancic " is used by small number of people in Sweden , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Canada. "Narancich " is used by some 50 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Narančić, Srećko Narančić, Zoran Narančić, Željko Narančić, Anita Narančić, Damir Narančić, Milorad Narančić, Sanja Narančić, Milutin Narančić, Dragan Narančić, Sandra Narančić, Goran Narančić, Nikola Narančić, Dušanka Narančić, Zdravko Narančić, Vlade Narančić, Dalibor Narančić, Ljiljana Narančić, Vesna Narančić

Mentions in sources

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

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