Surname Piglić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Piglić families are Croats (from Opatija area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Opatija.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Piglić live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Lovran in Opatija area (10), Opatija (<5), Matulji in Opatija area (<5), and in Dobrec (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Piglić (including: Piglich , Piglic ) is present in two countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Zvonko Piglić, Iva Piglić, Branko Piglić, Ivan Piglić, Željko Piglić, Vedran Piglić, Klara Piglić, Luciano Piglić, Nataša Piglić, Cvetka Piglić, Guido Piglić, Vlasta Piglić, Zrinka Piglić, Sebastijan Piglić, Marija Piglić, Kazimir Piglić, Nadalina Piglić, Veronika Piglić, Olga Piglić

Mentions in sources

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

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