Surname Alaga in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Alaga families are Croats (from Dubrovnik area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Backa, Vojvodina and in Dubrovnik.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Alaga live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Dubrovnik (<10), Tribunj (<10), Vodovadja in Dubrovnik area (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Rovinj (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least one family with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Alaga (including: Alagha , Allaga , Alaggia , Halaga , Alliaga , Alagah and Halagah ) is present in 55 countries worldwide. The family name "Alaga " is used by some 200 people in Malaysia , about 100 in the United States , and some 90 people in Libya.

Characteristic first names

Mario Alaga, Marijana Alaga, Gaja Alaga, Matija Alaga, Antun Alaga, Zoltan Alaga, Stevan Alaga, Marija Alaga, Đurđica Alaga, Petar Alaga, Ivo Alaga, Niko Alaga, Pero Alaga, Josip Alaga, Kate Alaga, Ana Alaga, Ivka Alaga, Ratko Alaga, Šime Alaga

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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