Surname Vrbanac in modern Croatia

Vrbanac families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrbovsko. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovsko and Glina. In places Veliki Jadrč and Lukovdol in Vrbovsko every fifth inhabitant had the family name Vrbanac.

Prevalence

About 420 people with faimily name Vrbanac live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 680 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 29 cities and 46 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Veliki Jadrc (30), Lukovdol (20), Karlovac (20), and in Glina (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 21 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (9), Canada (5), Germany (2), France (2), the United States (1), Argentina (1), and to Belgium (1).
Family name Vrbanac (including: Verbanac , Verbanaz , Vrbanatz and Verbanatz ) is present in 11 countries worldwide. The family name "Vrbanac " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number of people in Hungary. "Verbanac " is used by some 300 people in the United States and small number in Canada. "Verbanaz " is used by some 70 people in Argentina , about 50 in Italy , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Goran Vrbanac, Dorijan Vrbanac, Saša Vrbanac, Mijo Vrbanac, Ivan Vrbanac, Boris Vrbanac, Zvonimir Vrbanac, Silvestar Vrbanac, Josip Vrbanac, Martina Vrbanac, Drago Vrbanac, Krešimir Vrbanac, Stevo Vrbanac, Vjekoslav Vrbanac, Anka Vrbanac, Siniša Vrbanac, Željko Vrbanac, Tomislav Vrbanac, Hrvoje Vrbanac

Mentions in sources

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

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