Surname Vitas in modern Croatia

Vitas families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Pazin area , often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Gospic. In Kolarina in Benkovac every fourth inhabitant had the family name Vitas.

Prevalence

About 330 people with faimily name Vitas live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 580 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 31 other places, mostly in Zagreb (85), Rijeka (25), Zadar (15), Karlovac (15), and in Split (15).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Canada (1), the Netherlands (1), Sweden (1), Australia (1), the United States (1), the United Kingdom (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Vitas (including: Witas , Vytas , Vittas , Vietas , Vitash , Wytas , Whytas , Wittas and Whitas ) is present in 45 countries worldwide. The family name "Vitas " is used by some 500 people in Lithuania , about 400 in the United States , and some 400 people in the Philippines. "Vietas " is used by some 60 people in Brazil and small number in the United States. "Vittas " is used by some 200 people in Greece , about 80 in the United States , and small number of people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Marija Vitas, Lidija Vitas, Borivoj Vitas, Branko Vitas, Borko Vitas, Željko Vitas, Goran Vitas, Siniša Vitas, Dušan Vitas, Mirela Vitas, Zoran Vitas, Neno Vitas, Dragica Vitas, Luka Vitas, Božo Vitas, Petar Vitas, Mirjana Vitas, Dijana Vitas, Nenad Vitas

Mentions in sources

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

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