Surname Jedvaj.

  • Surname Jedvaj in modern Croatia

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

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  • Prevalence

    About 420 people with faimily name Jedvaj live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 340 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 23 cities and 45 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Gornja Bistra in Oroslavje area (55), in Gornje Jesenje (30) and Brdo Jesenjsko (30) in Krapina area, and in Sasa in Lepoglava area (30).

  • Outside Croatia

    At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (2) and Germany (1).
    Family name Jedvaj is present in three countries on three continents.

  • Characteristic first names

    Ivan Jedvaj, Zdenko Jedvaj, Tomislav Jedvaj, Željko Jedvaj, Petar Jedvaj, Ivica Jedvaj, Dragica Jedvaj, Zvonko Jedvaj, Rudolf Jedvaj, Stjepan Jedvaj, Josip Jedvaj, Zdenka Jedvaj, Mario Jedvaj, Darinka Jedvaj, Zvonimir Jedvaj, Vlado Jedvaj, Krešimir Jedvaj, Danijel Jedvaj, Vesna Jedvaj

  • Last name Jedvaj around the globe

    See the countries where surname Jedvaj is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1664 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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