Surname Mrdeža in modern Croatia

Mrdeža families are Croats and they are mostly from Sibenik. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik and Split.

Prevalence

About 240 people with faimily name Mrdeža live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Sibenik (90), Grebastica (25), Split (15), Perkovic (15), and in Pula (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Mrdeža is present in four countries on two continents. The family name "Mrdeza " is used by some 60 people in the United States and small number in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Anamarija Mrdeža, Mladen Mrdeža, Sanja Mrdeža, Mladin Mrdeža, Damira Mrdeža, Julija Mrdeža, Miro Mrdeža, Mirko Mrdeža, Ivica Mrdeža, Siniša Mrdeža, Davor Mrdeža, Dušan Mrdeža, Jadranka Mrdeža, Pavla Mrdeža, Ivana Mrdeža, Marko Mrdeža, Snježana Mrdeža, Ljiljana Mrdeža, Slavica Mrdeža

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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