Surname Pajnić in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 210 people with faimily name Pajnić live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 40 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Gerovo (25), Koska in Nasice area (10), Rijeka (10), and in Koprivnica (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pajnić (including: Paynich , Pajnic , Pajnich , Paynic , Painich and Paynick ) is present in 10 countries on four continents. The family name "Pajnic " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in France. "Pajnich " is used by few people in Canada and few people in the United States. "Paynich " is used by some 90 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Goran Pajnić, Milan Pajnić, Zvonimir Pajnić, Neda Pajnić, Robert Pajnić, Goranka Pajnić, Mladen Pajnić, Anđelka Pajnić, Slavica Pajnić, Alen Pajnić, Marijo Pajnić, Milena Pajnić, Nedeljka Pajnić, Darko Pajnić, Ljiljana Pajnić, Ružica Pajnić, Marko Pajnić, Slaven Pajnić, Slobodan Pajnić

Mentions in sources

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

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