Surname Mijat in modern Croatia

Mijat families are Croats and they are mostly from Vodice. According to some sources they are from Prvic Sepurine. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik and Vodice. In Srima in Vodice every third inhabitant had the family name Mijat.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Mijat live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Vodice (30), Zagreb (20), Sibenik (15), Srima (10), and in Tribunj (10).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (4), Switzerland (1), the United States (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Mijat (including: Milyat , Miyat ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. The family name "Mijat " is used by small number of people in Australia , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Germany. "Miyat " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Neven Mijat, Mirjana Mijat, Ante Mijat, Vesna Mijat, Marko Mijat, Jasmina Mijat, Gordana Mijat, Anita Mijat, Damir Mijat, Ivo Mijat, Marina Mijat, Zdravko Mijat, Željko Mijat, Brigita Mijat, Helena Mijat, Ozren Mijat, Rada Mijat, Ivan Mijat, Milan Mijat

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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