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Surname Dobrica in modern Croatia
In Croatia, Dobrica families are almost entirely Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Sveti Ivan Zelina area. In Rakovec in Sveti Ivan Zelina area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Dobrica.
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Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Dobrica live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Rakovec in Sveti Ivan Zelina area (30), Vrbovec (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Plocice in Dubrovnik area (<5).
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Outside Croatia
Family name Dobrica is present in 14 countries on three continents.
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Characteristic first names
Ivan Dobrica,
Tomislav Dobrica,
Ladislav Dobrica,
Josipa Dobrica,
Franjo Dobrica,
Josip Dobrica,
Ivica Dobrica,
Martina Dobrica,
Blaženka Dobrica,
Stjepan Dobrica,
Mladen Dobrica,
Željkica Dobrica,
Jasenka Dobrica,
Renata Dobrica,
Marko Dobrica,
Marina Dobrica,
Đurđica Dobrica,
Katarina Dobrica,
Ljubica Dobrica