Surname Šintić in modern Croatia

Šintić families are Croats and they are mostly from Zapresic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Samobor. In Gornja Vas in Samobor every second inhabitant had the family name Šintić.

Prevalence

About 210 people with faimily name Šintić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Gornja Vas (25), in Senkovec (25) and Kljuc Brdovecki (10) in Zapresic area, and in Zadar (10).

Outside Croatia

At least ten families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (3), France (2), Canada (2), Switzerland (1), Germany (1), and to Austria (1).
Family name Šintić (including: Sintic , Sintich ) is present in 7 countries on two continents. The family name "Sintic " is used by some 400 people in the United States and small number in France. "Sintich " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Italy , and small number of people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Tomislav Šintić, Josip Šintić, Mladen Šintić, Gordana Šintić, Marko Šintić, Branimir Šintić, Vlado Šintić, Željko Šintić, Krešimir Šintić, Irena Šintić, Jelka Šintić, Nada Šintić, Suzana Šintić, Branka Šintić, Pavao Šintić, Branko Šintić, Nenad Šintić, Renato Šintić, Kruno Šintić

Mentions in sources

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

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