Surname Pokrajac in modern Croatia

Pokrajac families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Rovinj , but often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rovinj. In Rovinjsko Selo in Rovinj every seventh inhabitant had the family name Pokrajac.

Prevalence

About 350 people with faimily name Pokrajac live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 650 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 24 cities and 33 other places, mostly in Rovinj (55), Rovinjsko Selo (55), Zagreb (50), Split (20), and in Zadar (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 16 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Argentina (6), the United States (4), Germany (2), Australia (2), Canada (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Pokrajac (including: Pokrajaz , Pokraiaz ) is present in 17 countries worldwide. The family name "Pokrajac " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 70 in Canada , and small number of people in Thailand.

Characteristic first names

Danijela Pokrajac, Livio Pokrajac, Mladen Pokrajac, Jadranka Pokrajac, Danilo Pokrajac, Damir Pokrajac, Tomislav Pokrajac, Branko Pokrajac, Igor Pokrajac, Goran Pokrajac, Tomo Pokrajac, Nikolina Pokrajac, Ilija Pokrajac, Zdravko Pokrajac, Anton Pokrajac, Marija Pokrajac, Nenad Pokrajac, Ivan Pokrajac, Roland Pokrajac

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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