Surname Damijan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Damijan families are Croats (from Buje ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Umag.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Damijan live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Buroli (<10), Porec (<5), Umag (<5), and in Savudrija (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Damijan (including: Damiean , Damiyan and Dammiyan ) is present in 18 countries on four continents.

Characteristic first names

Zvjezdana Damijan, Patrik Damijan, Mauricio Damijan, Livio Damijan, Ana Damijan, Milan Damijan, Nada Damijan, Marijan Damijan, Denis Damijan, Dario Damijan, Zdenka Damijan, Antica Damijan, Maichl Damijan, Monika Damijan, Glorija Damijan, Dorotea Damijan, Diego Damijan, Valter Damijan, Viktorija Damijan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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