Surname Vrbanić in modern Croatia

Vrbanić families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrbovsko area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin. In Meljan in Lepoglava area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Vrbanić.

Prevalence

About 1200 people with faimily name Vrbanić live in Croatia today, in 500 households. There were 1300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 58 cities and 124 other places, mostly in Zagreb (150), Karlovac (75), Varazdin (60), Duga Resa (40), and in Draganic in Karlovac area (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 20 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (9), Austria (4), France (2), Canada (2), Switzerland (1), the United States (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Vrbanić (including: Vrbanic , Verbanic , Verbanick and Wrbanich ) is present in 10 countries on four continents. The family name "Vrbanic " is used by some 90 people in Canada , about 60 in the United States , and small number of people in Australia. "Verbanic " is used by some 400 people in the United States. "Verbanick " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Vrbanić, Veljko Vrbanić, Krešimir Vrbanić, Kristijan Vrbanić, Franjo Vrbanić, Đuro Vrbanić, Julka Vrbanić, Alen Vrbanić, Irena Vrbanić, Danijel Vrbanić, Ljubica Vrbanić, Krunoslav Vrbanić, Gordana Vrbanić, Zlatko Vrbanić, Zdenko Vrbanić, Vjeran Vrbanić, Renato Vrbanić, Siniša Vrbanić, Stjepan Vrbanić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over seventy times, the first time 1701 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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