Surname Sporiš in modern Croatia

Sporiš families are Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Klanjec. In Donji Škrnik in Pregrada area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Sporiš.

Prevalence

About 310 people with faimily name Sporiš live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 310 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 33 other places, mostly in Zagreb (135), Donji Skrnik in Pregrada area (25), Prosenik in Klanjec area (15), Klostar Ivanic in Ivanic-Grad area (15), and in Cerna in Zupanja area (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Sporiš (including: Sporis , Sporish , Sporysh , Sporysz , Sporys , Sporisch , Sporysch and Spories ) is present in 23 countries worldwide. "Spories " is used by few people in the United States. "Sporysz " is used by some 400 people in Poland , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Czech Republic.

Characteristic first names

Davor Sporiš, Dragan Sporiš, Ana Sporiš, Srečko Sporiš, Goran Sporiš, Ivica Sporiš, Ivana Sporiš, Damir Sporiš, Vedran Sporiš, Gordana Sporiš, Stjepan Sporiš, Nensi Sporiš, Tomislav Sporiš, Mateja Sporiš, Anita Sporiš, Milan Sporiš, Ivan Sporiš, Slavica Sporiš, Dragica Sporiš

Mentions in sources

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

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