Surname Rubinić in modern Croatia

Rubinić families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor. According to some sources they are from Vrisnik on the Island of Hvar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Samobor and Rijeka. In places Bukovje Podvrško and Velika Rakovica in Samobor every second inhabitant had the family name Rubinić.

Prevalence

About 770 people with faimily name Rubinić live in Croatia today, in 320 households. There were 800 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 87 other places, mostly in Samobor (85), Zagreb (80), Rijeka (55), and in Moscenice (50) and Lovran (30) in Opatija area.

Outside Croatia

At least 35 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (26), Australia (3), Germany (3), France (1), Canada (1), and to Mexico (1).
Family name Rubinić (including: Rubinich , Rubinic ) is present in 14 countries on four continents. The family name "Rubinic " is used by some 100 people in the United States and small number in Bolivia. "Rubinich " is used by some 500 people in Argentina , about 100 in Brazil , and some 80 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Rubinić, Milivoj Rubinić, Dušan Rubinić, Ivan Rubinić, Bruna Rubinić, Robert Rubinić, Tihomir Rubinić, Zlatko Rubinić, Vesna Rubinić, Ira Rubinić, Miroslav Rubinić, Krešimir Rubinić, Kata Rubinić, Diana Rubinić, Silvano Rubinić, Sebastijan Rubinić, Željka Rubinić, Mirko Rubinić, Astrid Rubinić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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