Surname Smoljanović in modern Croatia

Smoljanović families are generally Croats and they are mostly from Omis , less frequently Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Omis. In Blato na Cetini in Omis every ninth inhabitant had the family name Smoljanović.

Prevalence

About 420 people with faimily name Smoljanović live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 510 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 29 other places, mostly in Split (85), Blato na Cetini (75), Zagreb (65), Veliki Poganac in Koprivnica area (25), and in Omis (25).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), Canada (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Smoljanović (including: Smoljanovic , Smoljanovich and Smolyanovich ) is present in 15 countries on three continents. "Smoljanovich " is used by some 70 people in Argentina and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mladen Smoljanović, Tomislav Smoljanović, Saša Smoljanović, Mirjana Smoljanović, Zoran Smoljanović, Marko Smoljanović, Ankica Smoljanović, Aleksandar Smoljanović, Lada Smoljanović, Anđelina Smoljanović, Hrvoje Smoljanović, Đuro Smoljanović, Denis Smoljanović, Radoslav Smoljanović, Nebojša Smoljanović, Mira Smoljanović, Jasminka Smoljanović, Biljana Smoljanović, Đurđa Smoljanović

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1749 in source 18th Century Census.

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