Surname Blaži in modern Croatia

Blaži families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and in Varazdin area.

Prevalence

About 230 people with faimily name Blaži live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Sveti Ilija (55) and Beretinec (35) in Varazdin area, Varazdin (25), and in Cresnjevo (20) and Turcin (15) in Varazdin area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Blaži (including: Blazi , Blazy , Blazhey , Blazie , Blazzi , Blazhiy , Blazhi and Blazsi ) is present in 36 countries worldwide. The family name "Blazi " is used by some 200 people in Sudan , about 200 in the United States , and some 100 people in Tanzania. "Blazie " is used by some 50 people in the United States. "Blazsi " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Draženka Blaži, Darko Blaži, Dražen Blaži, Krunoslav Blaži, Stjepan Blaži, Davor Blaži, Sanja Blaži, Ivica Blaži, Ana Blaži, Bojan Blaži, Natalija Blaži, Goran Blaži, Darinka Blaži, Slavica Blaži, Miljenko Blaži, Dragutin Blaži, Dubravka Blaži, Mario Blaži, Nikola Blaži

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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