Surname Banja in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Banja families are generally Croats (from Virovitica ), very rarely Bosniaks (from Ploce ), and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Virovitica and Grubisno Polje.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Banja live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Rezovac (15), Veliki Grdjevac in Grubisno Polje area (<10), Grbavac (<10), Osijek (<10), and in Virovitica (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Banja (including: Banya , Bhanja , Bania , Bagna , Bannya , Banjha , Bagnah , Bhannja and Banjah ) is present in 87 countries worldwide. "Bania " is used by some 2000 people in Poland , about 600 in the United States , and some 500 people in the Philippines.

Characteristic first names

Dražen Banja, Marija Banja, Dalibor Banja, Franjo Banja, Sadeta Banja, Ivan Banja, Mirko Banja, Tomislav Banja, Dijana Banja, Goran Banja, Igor Banja, Mateja Banja, Stjepan Banja, Josip Banja, Zdravko Banja, Bojan Banja, Renato Banja, Slađana Banja, Julijana Banja

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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