Surname Zgrablić in modern Croatia

Zgrablić families are Croats and they are mostly from Pazin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Pazin. In Zabrežani in Pazin every sixth inhabitant had the family name Zgrablić.

Prevalence

About 200 people with faimily name Zgrablić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are only located in in 10 Croatian cities and 12 other places, mostly in Sveti Petar u Sumi in Pazin area (55), Pazin (45), Pula (30), Zagreb (20), and in Rovinj (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 13 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Argentina (3), Australia (3), France (3), the United States (2), Canada (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Zgrablić (including: Zgrablic , Zgrablich ) is present in 8 countries on four continents. "Zgrablich " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Argentina.

Characteristic first names

Robi Zgrablić, Dino Zgrablić, Karin Zgrablić, Kristijan Zgrablić, Miroslav Zgrablić, Branko Zgrablić, Renato Zgrablić, Velimir Zgrablić, Branka Zgrablić, Davor Zgrablić, Ivan Zgrablić, Boris Zgrablić, Milan Zgrablić, Biljana Zgrablić, Zoran Zgrablić, Vlado Zgrablić, Alek Zgrablić, Smiljan Zgrablić, Vjekoslav Zgrablić

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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