Surname Vlainić in modern Croatia

Vlainić families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from Nova Gradiska area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska area and in Nova Gradiska. In Godinjak in Nova Gradiska area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Vlainić.

Prevalence

About 400 people with faimily name Vlainić live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 340 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 28 cities and 29 other places, mostly in Godinjak in Nova Gradiska area (75), Zagreb (50), Osijek (30), Cernik in Nova Gradiska area (25), and in Nova Gradiska (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 13 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (5), France (2), Austria (2), the Netherlands (1), Switzerland (1), Australia (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Vlainić (including: Vlainic , Vlainich and Vlahinic ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. The family name "Vlainic " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Vlainich " is used by some 100 people in Brazil and small number in the United States. "Vlahinic " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Drago Vlainić, Slavko Vlainić, Zoran Vlainić, Josip Vlainić, Zlatko Vlainić, Lada Vlainić, Josipa Vlainić, Ivan Vlainić, Miroslav Vlainić, Damir Vlainić, Nevenka Vlainić, Željka Vlainić, Valentina Vlainić, Aleksandar Vlainić, Blaženka Vlainić, Jadranka Vlainić, Mario Vlainić, Katica Vlainić, Božidar Vlainić

Mentions in sources

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

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