Surname Blaga in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Blaga families are generally Croats (from Djurdjevac ), very rarely Romanians (from Velika Gorica ), and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac and Virovitica.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Blaga live in Croatia today, in 16 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are only located in four Croatian cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Djurdjevac (<10), Grkine (<10), and in Pitomaca (<5) and Starogradacki Marof (<5) in Djurdjevac area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Blaga is present in 39 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Siniša Blaga, Igor Blaga, Ivica Blaga, Marijan Blaga, Željka Blaga, Josip Blaga, Marko Blaga, Mladen Blaga, Lucian Blaga, Mirela Blaga, Marica Blaga, Mara Blaga, Petar Blaga, Đurđica Blaga, Tomo Blaga, Ljubica Blaga, Nadežda Blaga, Mato Blaga, Kata Blaga

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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