Surname Oraić in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Oraić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 9 other places, mostly in Gornja Semnica (55) and Mihovljan (20) in Krapina area, Zagreb (15), Grletinec in Pregrada area (<10), and in Rakov Potok (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Oraić (including: Oraic , Horaichi ) is present in four countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Dražen Oraić, Zdravka Oraić, Ivana Oraić, Mira Oraić, Stjepan Oraić, Đurđica Oraić, Matija Oraić, Nataša Oraić, Katarina Oraić, Biserka Oraić, Božena Oraić, Marija Oraić, Dubravka Oraić, Milka Oraić, Nevenka Oraić, Jasminka Oraić, Dragica Oraić, Milan Oraić, Đurđa Oraić

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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