Surname Mataija.

  • Surname Mataija in modern Croatia

    Mataija families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Vinodolski area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Novi Vinodolski.

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  • Prevalence

    About 580 people with faimily name Mataija live in Croatia today, in 240 households. There were 410 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 46 other places, mostly in Rijeka (115), Novi Vinodolski (110), Zagreb (35), Podostra (35), and in Gospic (35).

  • Outside Croatia

    At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (4), Canada (2), France (1), the United States (1), and to Australia (1).
    Family name Mataija (including: Mathaiya , Mataiya , Mattayya , Mathayya and Matayya ) is present in 12 countries worldwide.

  • Characteristic first names

    Ivica Mataija, Mirta Mataija, Tamara Mataija, Joško Mataija, Željko Mataija, Marina Mataija, Goran Mataija, Dragutin Mataija, Branko Mataija, Jasminka Mataija, Jure Mataija, Paul Mataija, Marko Mataija, Boris Mataija, Vesna Mataija, Ankica Mataija, Rafael Mataija, Alen Mataija, Mihaela Mataija

  • Last name Mataija around the globe

    See the countries where surname Mataija 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 over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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