In Croatia, Hobolja families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Virovitica and in Djurdjevac area.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Hobolja live in Croatia today, in 8 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 five naselja i to in Klostar Podravski in Djurdjevac area (<10), Djurdjevac (<10), Zagreb (<5), Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (<5), and in Donji Meljani (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Hobolja is present in this form only in Croatia.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.