Surname Svrakić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Svrakić families are mainly Serbs, less frequently Croats (from Tuzla Region (also Bosnia) ), and very rarely Bosniaks (from Tuzla Region (Bosnia) ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Beli Manastir and Pleternica. In Dušče in Podrinje (Bosnia) nearly every inhabitant had the family name Svrakić.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Svrakić live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located and threee other Croatian places, mostly in Beli Manastir (10), Kraljevica (<10), Jurdani in Opatija area (<10), Bucje (<10), and in Borovo in Vukovar area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Svrakić is present in 6 countries on two continents. The family name "Svrakic " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Turkey.

Characteristic first names

Enver Svrakić, Nadežda Svrakić, Dino Svrakić, Milana Svrakić, Vanda Svrakić, Ševal Svrakić, Dušanka Svrakić, Vesna Svrakić, Slađana Svrakić, Denisa Svrakić, Ivan Svrakić, Dušan Svrakić, Katarina Svrakić, Ibrišim Svrakić, Sonja Svrakić, Azra Svrakić, Goran Svrakić, Milijana Svrakić, Predrag Svrakić

Mentions in sources

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

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