Surname Rakovac in modern Croatia

Rakovac families are Croats and they are mostly from Rakovaca near Porec. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Porec. In Rakovci in Porec every second inhabitant had the family name Rakovac.

Prevalence

About 200 people with faimily name Rakovac live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 23 other places, mostly in Pula (45), Zagreb (25), Porec (20), Rijeka (15), and in Vrsar in Rovinj area (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rakovac (including: Rakovatz , Racovaz ) is present in 14 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Dušan Rakovac, Tatjana Rakovac, Ivan Rakovac, Milan Rakovac, Marija Rakovac, Ella Rakovac, Mladenka Rakovac, Kristijan Rakovac, Goran Rakovac, Leo Rakovac, Živko Rakovac, Dragan Rakovac, Robert Rakovac, Vilijam Rakovac, Petar Rakovac, Vladimir Rakovac, Lenjin Rakovac, Anđelka Rakovac, Piero Rakovac

Mentions in sources

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

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