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Surname Žgela in modern Croatia
Žgela families are Croats and they are mostly from Slunj and from Gornjih and Donjih Furjana. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slunj and Zagreb. In places Gornji Furjan and Donji Furjan in Slunj every third inhabitant had the family name Žgela.
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Prevalence
About 670 people with faimily name Žgela live in Croatia today, in 270 households. There were 560 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 45 cities and 62 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Karlovac (75), Ivankovo in Vinkovci area (70), Sesvete (60), and in Stari Mikanovci in Djakovo area (50).
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Outside Croatia
At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (5), Switzerland (2), and to the United States (2).
Family name Žgela is present in two countries on two continents. The family name "Zgela " is used by some 70 people in the United States.
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Characteristic first names
Milka Žgela,
Milan Žgela,
Đurđica Žgela,
Nedeljko Žgela,
Alma Žgela,
Igor Žgela,
Jure Žgela,
Željko Žgela,
Mirjana Žgela,
Snježana Žgela,
Žarko Žgela,
Šimun Žgela,
Ante Žgela,
Mile Žgela,
Dragan Žgela,
Marica Žgela,
Ivan Žgela,
Jelena Žgela,
Marijana Žgela
