In Croatia, Kandija families are Croats (from Trogir ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Trogir.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Kandija live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Trogir (<10), Split (<5), and in Drvenik Veliki (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1930 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.