Surname Šalamon in modern Croatia

Šalamon families are Croats and they are mostly from Ludbreg area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 360 people with faimily name Šalamon live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 380 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 0 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 39 other places, mostly in Cakovec (45), Zagreb (40), Novo Selo Podravsko in Ludbreg area (30), Slavonski Brod (15), and in Ivanovec (15).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (5), Australia (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Šalamon (including: Salamon , Schalamon , Shalamon and Salamoon ) is present in 78 countries worldwide. The family name "Salamon " is used by some 10000 people in Poland , about 6000 in Hungary , and some 5000 people in the United States. "Schalamon " is used by small number of people in Germany and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Snježana Šalamon, Branko Šalamon, Antun Šalamon, Jasna Šalamon, Branka Šalamon, Mirjana Šalamon, Željko Šalamon, Vesna Šalamon, Davor Šalamon, Goran Šalamon, Saša Šalamon, Andrej Šalamon, Stjepan Šalamon, Koraljka Šalamon, Siniša Šalamon, Sanjana Šalamon, Ivan Šalamon, Antonela Šalamon, Mato Šalamon

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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