Surname Bakija.

  • Surname Bakija in modern Croatia

    Bakija families are generally Croats and they are mostly from Biograd na Moru area. According to some sources they are from Lake Skadarsko area, rarely Albanians and Bosniaks. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and in Biograd na moru area.

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  • Prevalence

    About 190 people with faimily name Bakija live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
    They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Pakostane in Biograd na moru area (75), Zagreb (25), Zadar (20), Cres on the Island of Cres (20), and in Split (10).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Bakija (including: Bakieva , Bakieka , Bakiera , Bakiya , Bakhiya , Bhakhija , Bakhijah , Bhakija and Backiya ) is present in 42 countries worldwide.

  • Characteristic first names

    Katarina Bakija, Katja Bakija, Ivana Bakija, Nikola Bakija, Vinko Bakija, Branko Bakija, Sand Bakija, Vice Bakija, Antun Bakija, Eni Bakija, Ivica Bakija, Ivan Bakija, Sanko Bakija, Tomislav Bakija, Mirna Bakija, Dario Bakija, Biserka Bakija, Marijana Bakija, Dubravka Bakija

  • Last name Bakija around the globe

    See the countries where surname Bakija 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 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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