Surname Petračić in modern Croatia

Petračić families are Croats and they are mostly from Petrinja. According to some sources they are from Rakitovca near Velike Gorice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Petrinja and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Petračić live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Petrinja (20), Rakitovec (20), Karlovac (<10), and in Velika Gorica (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Petračić (including: Petracic , Petracich ) is present in 6 countries on three continents. "Petracich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Miroslav Petračić, Tin Petračić, Davor Petračić, Ankica Petračić, Antun Petračić, Ivica Petračić, Dubravko Petračić, Boris Petračić, Saša Petračić, Mirjana Petračić, Petar Petračić, Josip Petračić, Dinko Petračić, Marjana Petračić, Sanja Petračić, Marina Petračić, Franjo Petračić, Andrija Petračić, Vjeran Petračić

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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