Surname Monjac in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Monjac families are Croats (from Opatija area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Opatija area. In Pobri in Opatija every tenth inhabitant had the family name Monjac.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Monjac live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are only located in two Croatian cities and 5 other places, mostly in Rijeka (15), and in Matulji (<10), Bregi (<5), Mihotici (<5) and Rukavac (<5) in Opatija area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Monjac (including: Moniac , Monyaz ) is present in 6 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Dean Monjac, Mladenka Monjac, Ingrid Monjac, Sanjin Monjac, Lea Monjac, Dragan Monjac, Željko Monjac, Marinko Monjac, Mirjana Monjac, Alen Monjac, Sergio Monjac, Desanka Monjac, Gioni Monjac, Liljana Monjac, Vanda Monjac, Robert Monjac, Goran Monjac, Doris Monjac, Milica Monjac

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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