Surname Pomazan in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Pomazan live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 80 percent.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Rijeka (15), Tinjan in Pazin area (10), Tar (<10), and in Rovinj (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pomazan is present in 17 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Ivana Pomazan, Enio Pomazan, Ivanka Pomazan, Acija Pomazan, Magdalena Pomazan, Roberto Pomazan, Petrica Pomazan, Lucijan Pomazan, Ivan Pomazan, Mara Pomazan, Denis Pomazan, Loris Pomazan, Sabina Pomazan, Biserka Pomazan, Snježana Pomazan, Antun Pomazan, Đulijana Pomazan, Dragica Pomazan, Damir Pomazan

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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