Surname Vaistina in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Vaistina families are generally Croats (from Novska area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novska area and in Sisak.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Vaistina live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in four Croatian counties and two other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Sisak (<5), Rijeka (<5), Klobucak (<5), and in Zapresic (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vaistina is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Tihana Vaistina, Mijo Vaistina, Barbara Vaistina, Božo Vaistina, Boris Vaistina, Darko Vaistina, Ivan Vaistina, Zora Vaistina, Dijana Vaistina, Marija Vaistina, Kata Vaistina, Štefa Vaistina, Gordana Vaistina, Josip Vaistina, Milja Vaistina, Ana Vaistina, Predrag Vaistina, Martina Vaistina, Saša Vaistina

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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