Surname Oroz.

  • Surname Oroz in modern Croatia

    Oroz families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from middle Bosnia , barely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Derventa area) and in East Herzegovina (Gacko area). In places Djedov Do and Gojevići in Middle Bosnia every third inhabitant had the family name Oroz.

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  • Prevalence

    About 420 people with faimily name Oroz live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 28 cities and 31 other places, mostly in Slavonski Brod (115), Zagreb (80), Pula (35), Darda in Osijek area (30), and in Petrinja (15).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Oroz (including: Horoz , Orozzo and Horroz ) is present in 46 countries worldwide. "Orozzo " is used by small number of people in the United States.

  • Characteristic first names

    Zoran Oroz, Perica Oroz, Ivan Oroz, Milenko Oroz, Dalibor Oroz, Ružica Oroz, Goran Oroz, Slavko Oroz, Josipa Oroz, Vesna Oroz, Katica Oroz, Darko Oroz, Dinko Oroz, Ante Oroz, Željko Oroz, Marko Oroz, Zvonko Oroz, Suzana Oroz, Katarina Oroz

  • Last name Oroz around the globe

    See the countries where surname Oroz is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1691 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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