Surname Zrilić in modern Croatia

Zrilić families are Croats and they are mostly from Benkovac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Benkovac and Zadar. In places Bruška and Perušić Benkovački in Benkovac every fourth inhabitant had the family name Zrilić.

Prevalence

About 1000 people with faimily name Zrilić live in Croatia today, in 380 households. There were 470 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 39 cities and 50 other places, mostly in Zadar (340), Zagreb (105), Biograd na moru (80), Bruska (80), and in Benkovac (65).

Outside Croatia

At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (3), France (3), Australia (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Zrilić (including: Zrilic , Zrilich ) is present in 12 countries worldwide. The family name "Zrilic " is used by small number of people in Australia , small number in Germany , and small number of people in the United States. "Zrilich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zrinko Zrilić, Stipe Zrilić, Nataša Zrilić, Zdenko Zrilić, Perislav Zrilić, Grga Zrilić, Smiljana Zrilić, Diana Zrilić, Goran Zrilić, Stanko Zrilić, Marica Zrilić, Snježana Zrilić, Ivica Zrilić, Senka Zrilić, Jasna Zrilić, Mario Zrilić, Marina Zrilić, Ivan Zrilić, Marko Zrilić

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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