Surname Šagovac in modern Croatia

Šagovac families are Croats and they are mostly from Nova Gradiska. According to some sources they are from Cernika. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Šagovac live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Novska (15), Ivanovo Polje in Daruvar area (15), Prvca (10), and in Velika Gorica (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šagovac (including: Sagovac , Shagovac ) is present in 6 countries on four continents. The family name "Sagovac " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Australia , and small number of people in Germany. "Shagovac " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Korea (South).

Characteristic first names

Zoran Šagovac, Irena Šagovac, Ida Šagovac, Goran Šagovac, Mijo Šagovac, Hrvoje Šagovac, Barbara Šagovac, Leon Šagovac, Antun Šagovac, Natalija Šagovac, Stjepan Šagovac, Dara Šagovac, Krešimir Šagovac, Željko Šagovac, Srećko Šagovac, Tomislav Šagovac, Ivana Šagovac, Domagoj Šagovac, Josip Šagovac

Mentions in sources

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

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