Surname Rojnić in modern Croatia

Rojnić families are Croats and they are mostly from Labin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Labin area. In places Rojnići , Melnica and Želiski in Labin area every third inhabitant had the family name Rojnić.

Prevalence

About 460 people with faimily name Rojnić live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 370 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 37 other places, mostly in Pula (210), and in Loborika (30) and Vodnjan (20) in Pula area, and in Petehi (20) and Melnica (20) in Labin area.

Outside Croatia

At least 18 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: France (5), the United States (3), Sweden (3), Australia (2), Argentina (2), Austria (1), Venezuela (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Rojnić (including: Rojnic , Rajnic , Raynich , Roinich , Roinick and Rojnich ) is present in 18 countries worldwide. The family name "Rojnic " is used by small number of people in Venezuela , small number in Canada , and small number of people in Czech Republic , small number of people in the United States. "Rajnic " is used by some 500 people in Slovakia and about 100 in the United States. "Roinick " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mišel Rojnić, Predrag Rojnić, Ivana Rojnić, Ivica Rojnić, Petra Rojnić, Dalibor Rojnić, Eleonora Rojnić, Slavko Rojnić, Vladimir Rojnić, Dario Rojnić, Marinko Rojnić, Dorijana Rojnić, Nino Rojnić, Dean Rojnić, Ivan Rojnić, Mirjana Rojnić, Denis Rojnić, Matija Rojnić, Marijan Rojnić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1931 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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