Surname Vinski in modern Croatia

Vinski families are Croats and they are mostly from Duga Resa area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Duga Resa area and in Karlovac. In places Kučevice and Straža in Duga Resa area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Vinski.

Prevalence

About 240 people with faimily name Vinski live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 420 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 36 other places, mostly in Karlovac (70), Lepajci (20), Kucevice in Duga Resa area (15), Zagreb (10), and in Straza in Duga Resa area (10).

Outside Croatia

At least 17 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (5), the United States (5), Austria (2), Germany (2), Sweden (1), Canada (1), and to Argentina (1).
Family name Vinski (including: Vinsky , Winski , Winsky , Winskie , Wienski , Vinskie and Vienskie ) is present in 32 countries worldwide. The family name "Vinski " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 80 in Indonesia , and small number of people in Canada. "Vienskie " is used by few people in the United States. "Vinskie " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Vinski, Dragan Vinski, Marijan Vinski, Josip Vinski, Ana Vinski, Darinka Vinski, Branka Vinski, Sendi Vinski, Mladen Vinski, Anđelka Vinski, Krunoslav Vinski, Damir Vinski, Slađana Vinski, Anamarija Vinski, Dalibor Vinski, Goran Vinski, Blaženka Vinski, Jagoda Vinski, Mara Vinski

Mentions in sources

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

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