Surname Romano in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Romano families are generally Croats (from Buje area ), very rarely Jews (from Podrinje (Bosnia) ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Porec and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Romano live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Pula (<10), Ferenci in Buje area (<5), Osijek (<5), and in Glina (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Romano is present in 125 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Samuel Romano, Vincenzo Romano, Sebastiano Romano, Jakov Romano, Mirjana Romano, Lara Romano, Ana Romano, Irene Romano, Sara Romano, Izidor Romano, Fanika Romano, Marinka Romano, Bruno Romano, Luigia Romano, Elio Romano, Maria Romano, Rino Romano, Draženka Romano, Giacomo Romano

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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