Surname Vračan in modern Croatia

Vračan families are Croats and they are mostly from Petrinja area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Petrinja area and in Sisak. In places Pokupsko Vratečko and Brkiševina in Petrinja area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Vračan.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Vračan live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties and 13 other places, mostly in Hrastovica (15), Sisak (10), Brkisevina in Petrinja area (10), Velika Gorica (<10), and in Stari Brod in Petrinja area (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Vračan (including: Vracan , Vrachan and Wracan ) is present in three countries on two continents. The family name "Vracan " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Vrachan " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Wracan " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dalibor Vračan, Ivica Vračan, Zlatko Vračan, Ivan Vračan, Željko Vračan, Josip Vračan, Sandra Vračan, Dijana Vračan, Mario Vračan, Suzana Vračan, Stela Vračan, Marina Vračan, Tihomir Vračan, Ruža Vračan, Irena Vračan, Ksenija Vračan, Željka Vračan, Zoran Vračan, Nikolina Vračan

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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