Surname Šušnjara in modern Croatia

Šušnjara families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj and in Sinj area. In Jasensko in Sinj every third inhabitant had the family name Šušnjara.

Prevalence

About 620 people with faimily name Šušnjara live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 310 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 25 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Sinj (130), Jasensko (100), Split (75), and in Vedrine (65) and Trilj (45) in Sinj area.

Outside Croatia

At least 19 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (9), Austria (4), Germany (3), Australia (1), France (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Šušnjara is present in 11 countries on three continents. The family name "Susnjara " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 100 in Australia , and small number of people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Marijana Šušnjara, Blanka Šušnjara, Josip Šušnjara, Milan Šušnjara, Ante Šušnjara, Petar Šušnjara, Angela Šušnjara, Ivan Šušnjara, Ruža Šušnjara, Zdravko Šušnjara, Zoran Šušnjara, Mario Šušnjara, Branko Šušnjara, Marina Šušnjara, Luka Šušnjara, Damir Šušnjara, Božidar Šušnjara, Nediljko Šušnjara, Ljubica Šušnjara

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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