Surname Pokrajčić in modern Croatia

Pokrajčić families are Croats and they are mostly from western Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Western Bosnia (Tomislavgrad area) and in Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Pokrajčić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Sesvete (30), Velika Gorica (25), Hudovo in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (<10), and in Brckovljani in Dugo Selo area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pokrajčić is present in 7 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Jozo Pokrajčić, Mladen Pokrajčić, Ilija Pokrajčić, Tomislav Pokrajčić, Ivan Pokrajčić, Milan Pokrajčić, Vinko Pokrajčić, Branka Pokrajčić, Gordana Pokrajčić, Marijana Pokrajčić, Frano Pokrajčić, Marijan Pokrajčić, Ksenija Pokrajčić, Jasna Pokrajčić, Dražen Pokrajčić, Zdenka Pokrajčić, Stipe Pokrajčić, Stipan Pokrajčić, Ivanka Pokrajčić

Mentions in sources

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

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