Surname Prašin in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Prašin families are Croats (from Duga Resa area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and in Duga Resa area. In Donje Stative in Duga Resa area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Prašin.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Prašin live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in two Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Donje Stative in Duga Resa area (15), Karlovac (10), Draganic in Karlovac area (<10), Gornje Stative (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Prašin (including: Prasin , Prasinh , Perasin , Prashin , Praschin and Prashkin ) is present in 16 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Prašin, Ivica Prašin, Vladimir Prašin, Darko Prašin, Božica Prašin, Mijo Prašin, Miroslav Prašin, Sandra Prašin, Marica Prašin, Marijana Prašin, Marija Prašin, Josip Prašin, Katica Prašin, Ljubica Prašin, Marijan Prašin, Jadranka Prašin, Jasminka Prašin, Magda Prašin, Mara Prašin

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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