Surname Letoja in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Letoja families are Croats (from Krizevci ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Krizevci and Zagreb. In Kučari in Krizevci every fourth inhabitant had the family name Letoja.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Letoja live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 5 other places, mostly in Krizevci (<10), Mali Raven (<10), Zagreb (<10), Gostovic (<10), and in Rijeka (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Letoja (including: Letoya , Letaiah ) is present in 8 countries on four continents. The family name "Letoja " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Letoja, Mladen Letoja, Dubravka Letoja, Ivica Letoja, Damir Letoja, Krunoslav Letoja, Denis Letoja, Tihana Letoja, Marijan Letoja, Tomislav Letoja, Dragutin Letoja, Katica Letoja, Darko Letoja, Jadranka Letoja, Kristina Letoja, Angela Letoja, Eva Letoja, Vladimir Letoja, Stjepan Letoja

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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