Surname Portada in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Portada families are Croats (from Novigrad ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and on the Island of Pag.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Portada live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties and another small place , mostly in Zagreb (10), Paljuv in Novigrad Area in Dalmatia (<10), Pag on the Island of Pag (<10), Mokosica (<5), and in Zadar (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Portada is present in 12 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Josip Portada, Ivana Portada, Tomislav Portada, Paula Portada, Ivanka Portada, Hrvoje Portada, Anamarija Portada, Ratimir Portada, Mirjana Portada, Branimir Portada, Katarina Portada, Danko Portada, Maroje Portada, Darko Portada, Božica Portada, Frane Portada, Jelica Portada, Hranislava Portada, Nedeljka Portada

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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