Surname Dodoja in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Dodoja live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent.
They are located in two Croatian counties, threee cities and 5 other places, mostly in Dugopolje in Solin area (50), Split (50), Postira on the Island of Brac (<5), Dugopolje in Knin area (<5), and in Solin (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Dodoja (including: Doddaiah , Dodoya , Dodaya , Dodaja , Dhodaya , Doddayya , Doddoja and Dhodalya ) is present in 9 countries on four continents. "Dodaja " is used by few people in the United States. "Doddaiah " is used by small number of people in Singapore and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Jordana Dodoja, Luka Dodoja, Nikša Dodoja, Slobodan Dodoja, Petar Dodoja, Božidar Dodoja, Dijana Dodoja, Goran Dodoja, Zvonko Dodoja, Nives Dodoja, Ivna Dodoja, Daniela Dodoja, Ante Dodoja, Mirko Dodoja, Zdravko Dodoja, Danijel Dodoja, Mišela Dodoja, Emila Dodoja, Neno Dodoja

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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