Surname Rakitničan in modern Croatia

Rakitničan families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area and in Virovitica.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Rakitničan live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Pitomaca (30) and Otrovanec (30) in Djurdjevac area, Zagreb (20), Velika Cresnjevica in Djurdjevac area (15), and in Djurdjevac (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rakitničan is present in two countries on two continents. The family name "Rakitnican " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Viktorija Rakitničan, Nenad Rakitničan, Marija Rakitničan, Vesna Rakitničan, Branko Rakitničan, Ankica Rakitničan, Dražen Rakitničan, Štefica Rakitničan, Rozika Rakitničan, Božica Rakitničan, Dalibor Rakitničan, Ivan Rakitničan, Siniša Rakitničan, Damir Rakitničan, Zoran Rakitničan, Tihomir Rakitničan, Darko Rakitničan, Helena Rakitničan, Nada Rakitničan

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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