Surname Žerjav.

  • Surname Žerjav in modern Croatia

    Žerjav families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area , rarely Slovenes (from Slovenia ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cakovec.

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  • Prevalence

    About 380 people with faimily name Žerjav live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 36 other places, mostly in Zagreb (105), Cakovec (70), Dekanovec in Prelog area (35), Darda in Osijek area (25), and in Velika Gorica (10).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Žerjav (including: Zerjav , Zeryav ) is present in 8 countries on three continents. The family name "Zerjav " is used by some 200 people in the United States and small number in Canada.

  • Characteristic first names

    Vesna Žerjav, Zdravko Žerjav, Anton Žerjav, Dražen Žerjav, Ivan Žerjav, Viktor Žerjav, Saša Žerjav, Stjepan Žerjav, Antun Žerjav, Mladen Žerjav, Ljubica Žerjav, Franjo Žerjav, Sandra Žerjav, Vedran Žerjav, Sonja Žerjav, Josip Žerjav, Monika Žerjav, Dario Žerjav, Marija Žerjav

  • Last name Žerjav around the globe

    See the countries where surname Žerjav is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1926 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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