Surname Gajanović in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Gajanović families are Croats by relative majority (from Zagreb ), equally Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanska Gradiska area). In Vilusi in Bosanian Posavina every fourtieth inhabitant had the family name Gajanović.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Gajanović live in Croatia today, in four households only.
They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Sesvete (<5), Omis (<5), and in Split (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gajanović (including: Gajanovic , Gayanovich and Galyanovich ) is present in 11 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Natalija Gajanović, Ratko Gajanović, Nedjeljka Gajanović, Gojko Gajanović, Alija Gajanović, Ejzer Gajanović, Jasmina Gajanović, Draginja Gajanović, Jovan Gajanović, Marija Gajanović, Stana Gajanović, Stevanija Gajanović, Vera Gajanović

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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