Surname Žaknić in modern Croatia

Žaknić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Korcula. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Korcula and on the Island of Korcula. In Blato on the Island of Korcula every fiftieth inhabitant had the family name Žaknić.

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Žaknić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Blato on the Island of Korcula (85), Zagreb (15), Split (15), Korcula on the Island of Korcula (10), and in Orebic on the Peljesac peninsula (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least 17 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (15), the United States (1), and to the Netherlands (1).
Family name Žaknić (including: Zaknich , Zacnich and Zaknic ) is present in 6 countries on four continents. "Zaknich " is used by some 100 people in Australia and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivana Žaknić, Hrvoje Žaknić, Gorki Žaknić, Liljana Žaknić, Tanija Žaknić, Tomislav Žaknić, Ivko Žaknić, Miroslav Žaknić, Ivo Žaknić, Gordana Žaknić, Katarina Žaknić, Sunčana Žaknić, Smiljan Žaknić, Alenka Žaknić, Norbert Žaknić, Frano Žaknić, Svjetlana Žaknić, Dubravka Žaknić, Vinko Žaknić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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