Surname Gadžo in modern Croatia

Gadžo families are Croats and they are mostly from Imotski area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotski area and in Imotsko. In Pribišići in Podrinje (Bosnia) every third inhabitant had the family name Gadžo.

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Gadžo live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Glavina Donja (20), in Krivodol (20) and Lokvicici (15) in Imotski area, Split (15), and in Zagreb (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gadžo (including: Gado , Gadzo , Gadoo , Gaddo , Gadjo , Gadho , Gadoh , Gadzho , Gaddoo and Ghado ) is present in 76 countries worldwide. The family name "Gadzo " is used by some 400 people in Ghana , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Sweden. "Gaddo " is used by some 300 people in Italy , about 80 in the United States , and some 60 people in Ghana. "Gadjo " is used by some 60 people in Indonesia , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Senegal.

Characteristic first names

Tomislav Gadžo, Branko Gadžo, Anka Gadžo, Ivana Gadžo, Vlado Gadžo, Dragica Gadžo, Ante Gadžo, Manda Gadžo, Ljuba Gadžo, Antonija Gadžo, Vjeko Gadžo, Mirko Gadžo, Veronika Gadžo, Darko Gadžo, Zlatka Gadžo, Stjepan Gadžo, Ivan Gadžo, Nehra Gadžo, Kristina Gadžo

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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