Surname Weiss.

  • Surname Weiss in modern Croatia

    Weiss families are Croats and they are mostly from Virovitica. According to some sources they are from Graz area (Austrija) and from Smarje pri Jelsah (Slovenija). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Virovitica.

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  • Prevalence

    About 100 people with faimily name Weiss live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 0 percent.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Virovitica (10), Krasica (<10), Rijeka (<10), and in Osijek (<5).

  • Outside Croatia

    At least 21 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (11), Austria (6), Switzerland (2), and to the United States (2).
    Family name Weiss (including: Weiß , Weyss and Weisss ) is present in 119 countries worldwide. The family name "Weiss " is used by some 80000 people in the United States , about 60000 in Germany , and some 10000 people in Brazil. "Weisss " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Weiß " is used by some 10000 people in Germany , about 800 in Austria , and some 60 people in the United States.

  • Characteristic first names

    Miljenko Weiss, Darko Weiss, Željko Weiss, Marija Weiss, Vanja Weiss, Hrvoje Weiss, Branimir Weiss, Manfred Weiss, Lothar Weiss, Peter Weiss, Vesna Weiss, Sanela Weiss, Matija Weiss, Samuel Weiss, Barbara Weiss, Jochen Weiss, Robert Weiss, Nataša Weiss, Sanjin Weiss

  • Last name Weiss around the globe

    See the countries where surname Weiss is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

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

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