Surname Varenina in modern Croatia

Varenina families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj and in Sinj area. In Jabuka in Sinj area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Varenina.

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Varenina live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Jabuka in Sinj area (50), Sinj (15), Zagreb (10), Split (10), and in Osijek (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (4), Australia (2), Belgium (2), and to the Netherlands (1).
Family name Varenina is present in 7 countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Alen Varenina, Branko Varenina, Boris Varenina, Spomenka Varenina, Josip Varenina, Davor Varenina, Gordana Varenina, Željko Varenina, Kristina Varenina, Mladen Varenina, Marijana Varenina, Ante Varenina, Zorana Varenina, Helena Varenina, Zvonko Varenina, Miše Varenina, Zoran Varenina, Nada Varenina, Jerko Varenina

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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