Surname Prvan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Prvan families are almost entirely Croats (from Split ), very rarely Italians (also from Split ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and in Slovenia.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Prvan live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Split (35), Zagreb (<5), Komiza on the Island of Vis (<5), and in Sumartin on the Island of Brac (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Prvan (including: Pervan , Prwan and Perwan ) is present in 28 countries worldwide. "Pervan " is used by some 700 people in Turkey , about 100 in the United States , and some 100 people in New Zealand.

Characteristic first names

Lađan Prvan, Edo Prvan, Ružica Prvan, Igor Prvan, Mlađan Prvan, Suzana Prvan, Marija Prvan, Milica Prvan, Inga Prvan, Nikola Prvan, Mosor Prvan, Borko Prvan, Mrđan Prvan, Bojan Prvan, Nada Prvan, Lidija Prvan, Darko Prvan, Tomislav Prvan, Ante Prvan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1938 in source Phone Book - Zagreb 1938.

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