Surname Čajo in modern Croatia

Čajo families are Croats and they are mostly from Drnis area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and in Drnis area.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Čajo live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Osijek (25), Split (20), Zagreb (15), Kastel Luksic (<10), and in Pula (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čajo (including: Cajo , Cayo , Caio , Chayo , Chaio , Chajo , Cajjo , Chajjo , Chadajo and Chhajjo ) is present in 57 countries worldwide. "Chadajo " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Cahyo " is used by some 30000 people in Indonesia and about 50 in the United States. "Calyo " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mato Čajo, Vladimir Čajo, Najda Čajo, Goran Čajo, Ivo Čajo, Matea Čajo, Miroslav Čajo, Tomislav Čajo, Daliborka Čajo, Jelena Čajo, Ivan Čajo, Verica Čajo, Denis Čajo, Darijo Čajo, Željko Čajo, Marija Čajo, Slavica Čajo, Marko Čajo, Branko Čajo

Mentions in sources

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

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