Surname Grozaj in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Grozaj live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Donja Pacetina in Zabok area (45), Oroslavje (<10), and in Veliko Trgovisce (<10) and Sveti Kriz Zacretje (<10) in Zabok area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Grozaj is present in 7 countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Petra Grozaj, Nenad Grozaj, Jasna Grozaj, Željko Grozaj, Stjepan Grozaj, Liljana Grozaj, Suzana Grozaj, Krešo Grozaj, Tomislav Grozaj, Višnjica Grozaj, Danijel Grozaj, Josip Grozaj, Franjo Grozaj, Ivana Grozaj, Petar Grozaj, Vera Grozaj, Maja Grozaj, Davor Grozaj, Snježana Grozaj

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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