Surname Žuža.

  • Surname Žuža in modern Croatia

    Žuža families are Croats and they are mostly from Zadar area (Podgradina). According to some sources they are from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar area and in Zadar. In places Podgradina and Posedarje in Zadar area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Žuža.

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  • Prevalence

    About 250 people with faimily name Žuža live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent.
    They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Podgradina in Zadar area (95), Rijeka (45), Zadar (40), Podgradina in Opuzen area (15), and in Split (10).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Žuža (including: Zuza , Zhuzha and Zuzza ) is present in 45 countries worldwide.

  • Characteristic first names

    Zdravko Žuža, Dražan Žuža, Šime Žuža, Diana Žuža, Tajana Žuža, Lara Žuža, Zoran Žuža, Miljenko Žuža, Renata Žuža, Ante Žuža, Ivica Žuža, Viktor Žuža, Branko Žuža, Marijana Žuža, Adrijana Žuža, Željko Žuža, Nada Žuža, Iva Žuža, Tomislav Žuža

  • Last name Žuža around the globe

    See the countries where surname Žuža 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 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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