Surname Šunjo in modern Croatia

Šunjo families are Croats and they are mostly from Rama (north Herzegovina), Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rama, Bosnia (Prozor area) and in Podrinje, Bosnia (Zvornik area). In Proslap in Rama (Bosnia) every thirtieth inhabitant had the family name Šunjo.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Šunjo live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Bresnica (15), Pozega (10), Zagreb (10), Predavac in Bjelovar area (10), and in Sulkovci (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šunjo (including: Sunjo , Sunio , Sunjoh , Sunyo , Shunyo and Sunjoo ) is present in 26 countries worldwide. "Sunio " is used by some 2000 people in the Philippines , about 100 in the United States , and some 50 people in Saudi Arabia. "Sunjoo " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Anđelka Šunjo, Šimun Šunjo, Mile Šunjo, Jadranka Šunjo, Franjo Šunjo, Miroslav Šunjo, Marija Šunjo, Davor Šunjo, Goran Šunjo, Petar Šunjo, Tomislav Šunjo, Šime Šunjo, Vinko Šunjo, Ružica Šunjo, Anto Šunjo, Ivan Šunjo, Vlado Šunjo, Ivana Šunjo, Zoran Šunjo

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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