Surname Rossi in modern Croatia

Rossi families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Pleternica , less frequently Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pleternica and Nova Gradiska.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Rossi live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Bukovica in Nova Gradiska area (10), Bajkini in Buje area (10), Resetari in Nova Gradiska area (10), Zagreb (<10), and in Split (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rossi (including: Rossy , Rossie , Rossí , Erossy and Rossii ) is present in 156 countries worldwide. "Rossie " is used by some 800 people in the United States , about 300 in Germany , and some 200 people in Indonesia. "Erossy " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vinko Rossi, Josip Rossi, Dragana Rossi, Ljudevit Rossi, Danijel Rossi, Slavica Rossi, Emil Rossi, Carlo Rossi, Željka Rossi, Marija Rossi, Danko Rossi, Marco Rossi, Petar Rossi, Adriano Rossi, Paolo Rossi, Tiziano Rossi, Ivan Rossi, Ines Rossi, Sanja Rossi

Mentions in sources

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

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