Surname Bendelja.

  • Surname Bendelja in modern Croatia

    Bendelja families are Croats and they are mostly from Ludbreg area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and in Ludbreg area. In Madaraševec in Ludbreg area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Bendelja.

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  • Prevalence

    About 110 people with faimily name Bendelja live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
    They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), in Madarasevec (20) and Cickovina (10) in Ludbreg area, Djakovo (<10), and in Rijeka (<10).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Bendelja is present in two countries.

  • Characteristic first names

    Krešo Bendelja, Damir Bendelja, Tihomir Bendelja, Slavica Bendelja, Darija Bendelja, Božo Bendelja, Aleksandra Bendelja, Marijan Bendelja, Ivica Bendelja, Neda Bendelja, Josip Bendelja, Ines Bendelja, Nadica Bendelja, Vesna Bendelja, Jurica Bendelja, Nikolina Bendelja, Jelica Bendelja, Slobodan Bendelja, Anita Bendelja

  • Last name Bendelja around the globe

    See the countries where surname Bendelja 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 few times, the first time 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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