Surname Cikoja in modern Croatia

Cikoja families are Croats and they are mostly from east Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Western Bosnia (Tomislavgrad area) and in Vrgorac. In Banja in Vrgorac every seventh inhabitant had the family name Cikoja.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Cikoja live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Bjelovar (30), Sotin (<10), Banja (<10), Sesvete (<10), and in Vrgorac (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Cikoja (including: Chikoya , Chikoja , Chikaya , Chichaya , Chicaya , Cikaya and Chicaia ) is present in 21 countries worldwide. The family name "Cikoja " is used by small number of people in Albania , small number of people in Australia , and small number of people in Canada , small number of people in the United States. "Chicaia " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Cikoja, Mirko Cikoja, Slavko Cikoja, Vojko Cikoja, Slaven Cikoja, Katica Cikoja, Joško Cikoja, Zdenka Cikoja, Marija Cikoja, Radojka Cikoja, Brankica Cikoja, Tihomir Cikoja, Mladenko Cikoja, Tanja Cikoja, Božana Cikoja, Ivica Cikoja, Dragan Cikoja, Aleksandar Cikoja, Judita Cikoja

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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