Slowly but surely, Croatians are moving away from traditional names and turning to names that are ‘more modern’ for their children. Also, the trend of choosing shorter names is stagnating, although they are still popular in Croatia.
Last week, the Croatian Ministry of Justice and Administration revealed the most common names given to newborn boys and girls in Croatia in 2020.
Among the 15 most common girls names were;
Mia, Lucija, Sara, Ema, Nika, Marta, Rita, Mila, Petra, Ana, Dora, Eva, Elena, Iva and Lana.
Luka, David, Jakov, Ivan, Petar, Roko, Matej, Noa, Filip, Mateo, Mihael, Fran, Karlo, Leon and Marko.
Luka was again the most popular boys name last year with 870 baby boys given the name in Croatia, whilst 531 girls were named Mia in 2020.
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ZAGREB, Dec 20 (Hina) – The Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (IHJJ) has published an online edition of the Dictionary of the Croatian Kajkavian Literary Language at kajkavski.hr.
On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the publication of the first print dictionary of the Kajkavian Croatian literary language, “Dictionar” (1670) by Juraj Habdelic, and the 280th anniversary of the printing of the most comprehensive Kajkavian dictionary, “Gazophylacium” (1740) by Ivan Belostenec, the IHJJ has launched a digitised online edition of all previously published volumes of the historical Dictionary of the Croatian Kajkavian Literary Language, lexicographically prepared by the Department of Croatian Language History and Historical Lexicography and co-published with the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), the IHJJ said in a press release.