Surname Radovani in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Radovani families are Croats (from the Island of Hvar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Rijeka. In Radovani in Porec area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Radovani.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Radovani live in Croatia today, in 15 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in four Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Rijeka (15), Split (<10), Zagreb (<10), and in Jelsa (<10) and Vrboska (<5) on the Island of Hvar.

Outside Croatia

Family name Radovani is present in 8 countries on four continents.

Characteristic first names

Marianne Radovani, Mladen Radovani, Ivana Radovani, Loreta Radovani, Tea Radovani, Maja Radovani, Vinko Radovani, Toni Radovani, Ante Radovani, Darko Radovani, Sonja Radovani, Ana Radovani, Katarina Radovani, Nikola Radovani, Zorica Radovani, Zdenka Radovani, Sanja Radovani, Petar Radovani, Nediljka Radovani

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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