Surname Ležaja.

  • Surname Ležaja in modern Croatia

    In Croatia, Ležaja families are mainly Croats (from East Herzegovine ), equally Serbs, and barely Bosniaks (from Rijeka ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Obrovac and Sibenik.

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  • Prevalence

    About 80 people with faimily name Ležaja live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zadar (20), Sibenik (<10), Beli Manastir (<10), Donji Karin (<10), and in Zagreb (<5).

  • Outside Croatia

    At least one family with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
    Family name Ležaja is present in this form only in Croatia.

  • Characteristic first names

    Alen Ležaja, Miroslav Ležaja, Ljilja Ležaja, Igor Ležaja, David Ležaja, Dušanka Ležaja, Dejvi Ležaja, Ivan Ležaja, Sandra Ležaja, Štefan Ležaja, Ljubica Ležaja, Mirjana Ležaja, Jelena Ležaja, Predrag Ležaja, Milovan Ležaja, Ratko Ležaja, Badema Ležaja, Mirko Ležaja, Marina Ležaja

  • Last name Ležaja around the globe

    See the countries where surname Ležaja 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 few times, the first time 1928 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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