Surname Kujundžić in modern Croatia

Kujundžić families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Imotski area. According to some sources they are from middle Bosnia, very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotski area and in Imotsko. In places Ivanbegovina and Grubine in Imotski area every third inhabitant had the family name Kujundžić.

Prevalence

About 1200 people with faimily name Kujundžić live in Croatia today, in 470 households. There were 540 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 51 cities and 76 other places, mostly in Ivanbegovina in Imotski area (255), Zagreb (195), Split (115), Grubine in Imotski area (100), and in Osijek (45).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (4), the Netherlands (2), the United States (2), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Kujundžić (including: Kujundzic , Kuyundzich ) is present in 6 countries on two continents. The family name "Kujundzic " is used by some 80 people in the United States and small number in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Milan Kujundžić, Nikola Kujundžić, Ivica Kujundžić, Milivoj Kujundžić, Augustin Kujundžić, Sanja Kujundžić, Josip Kujundžić, Goran Kujundžić, Ivo Kujundžić, Stipan Kujundžić, Milodar Kujundžić, Tatjana Kujundžić, Mirko Kujundžić, Zvonimir Kujundžić, Mirta Kujundžić, Nedjeljko Kujundžić, Trpimir Kujundžić, Milena Kujundžić, Anamarija Kujundžić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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