Šojat families are Croats and they are mostly from Senj. According to some sources they are from Karlobag. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Senj and Zagreb. U Gradu Senju every fourtieth inhabitant had the family name Šojat.
Prevalence
About 420 people with faimily name Šojat live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 490 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 35 cities and 34 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Senj (65), Senj (40), Bapska (20), and in Rijeka (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.