Surname Pažin in modern Croatia

Pažin families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from east Herzegovina , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in East Herzegovina (Stolac area) and in Zagreb. In places Prenj and Hodovo in East Herzegovina every eighth inhabitant had the family name Pažin.

Prevalence

About 440 people with faimily name Pažin live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 31 cities and 49 other places, mostly in Zagreb (135), Metkovic (45), Jaksic in Pozega area (25), Split (20), and in Vinkovci (20).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), Switzerland (2), and to the United States (1).
Family name Pažin (including: Pazin , Pazhin , Pazzin , Pazhdin and Pazyn ) is present in 27 countries worldwide. "Pazzin " is used by some 300 people in Brazil and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ante Pažin, Miroslav Pažin, Zvonko Pažin, Mario Pažin, Renata Pažin, Zdravko Pažin, Marinko Pažin, Nikica Pažin, Nada Pažin, Tihomir Pažin, Dragan Pažin, Damir Pažin, Anamarija Pažin, Mirko Pažin, Dijana Pažin, Drago Pažin, Marijana Pažin, Mila Pažin, Nikola Pažin

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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