Surname Najev in modern Croatia

Najev families are Croats and they are mostly from Trogir area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Trogir area and in Split. In places Najevi and Vrsine in Trogir area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Najev.

Prevalence

About 190 people with faimily name Najev live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Marina in Trogir area (70), Split (60), Najevi in Trogir area (40), Rijeka (<10), and in Trogir (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Najev (including: Nayev , Naiev , Najeev and Neiev ) is present in 11 countries on three continents. "Najeev " is used by few people in Canada and few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dominika Najev, Željko Najev, Rodoljub Najev, Mladen Najev, Luka Najev, Miodrag Najev, Nediljko Najev, Ivan Najev, Tonći Najev, Veronika Najev, Desa Najev, Svetinka Najev, Neno Najev, Nada Najev, Ivica Najev, Ana Najev, Renata Najev, Nikola Najev, Anamarija Najev

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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