Surname Sokolić in modern Croatia

Sokolić families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar area. According to some sources they are from Herzegovina and Novog Vinodolskog. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Velika Petrovagorska in Zlatar area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Sokolić.

Prevalence

About 710 people with faimily name Sokolić live in Croatia today, in 310 households. There were 870 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 42 cities and 84 other places, mostly in Zagreb (165), Novi Vinodolski (70), Rijeka (55), Velika Veternicka in Lepoglava area (35), and in Krizevci (25).

Outside Croatia

At least 27 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (17), Australia (5), Germany (2), New Zealand (1), Sweden (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Sokolić (including: Sokolic , Sokolich , Socolich , Socolic , Soccolich , Socolick , Sokolick , Sokolicz and Sockolich ) is present in 28 countries worldwide. The family name "Sokolic " is used by some 300 people in South Africa , about 200 in Argentina , and some 200 people in the United States. "Sokolich " is used by some 300 people in South Africa , about 200 in the United States , and some 80 people in New Zealand. "Sockolich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Julijano Sokolić, Željko Sokolić, Miran Sokolić, Dražen Sokolić, Mile Sokolić, Igor Sokolić, Jadranko Sokolić, Zoran Sokolić, Marko Sokolić, Lea Sokolić, Leomir Sokolić, Nada Sokolić, Zvonimir Sokolić, Danijela Sokolić, Mladen Sokolić, Nevio Sokolić, Diana Sokolić, Dalibor Sokolić, Darko Sokolić

Mentions in sources

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

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