Surname Lojen in modern Croatia

Lojen families are Croats and they are mostly from Klanjec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Slavonski Brod. In Ivanić Košnički in Pregrada area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Lojen.

Prevalence

About 220 people with faimily name Lojen live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 310 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Zagreb (90), Kupinecki Kraljevec (25), Slavonski Brod (15), Gornji Skrnik in Klanjec area (10), and in Rijeka (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Lojen (including: Loyen , Looyen , Layen , Lajeen , Lajen and Loien ) is present in 23 countries worldwide. "Loien " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Damir Lojen, Zvonimira Lojen, Mladen Lojen, Blanša Lojen, Stjepan Lojen, Miroslav Lojen, Željko Lojen, Boris Lojen, Vjekoslav Lojen, Željka Lojen, Goran Lojen, Ivica Lojen, Zdenko Lojen, Dragutin Lojen, Goranka Lojen, Kristijan Lojen, Nataša Lojen, Bojan Lojen, Nikolina Lojen

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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