Šindija families are Croats and they are mostly from Zadar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and in Zadar area. In Bibinje in Zadar area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Šindija.
Prevalence
About 180 people with faimily name Šindija live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and four other places, mostly in Bibinje in Zadar area (145), Zadar (15), Zagreb (15), Split (<5), and in Otocac (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.