Surname Padjen in modern Croatia

Padjen families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Vinodolski. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Ogulin. In Donje Zagorje in Ogulin every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Padjen.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Padjen live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Rijeka (30), Pula (<10), Podostra (<10), and in Gornje Zagorje (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Padjen is present in 14 countries worldwide. The family name "Padjen " is used by some 200 people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number of people in Australia. "Padien " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Padjen, Domagoj Padjen, Ivo Padjen, Zdenko Padjen, Dušan Padjen, Goran Padjen, Ivana Padjen, Ladislav Padjen, Marijana Padjen, Mario Padjen, Juraj Padjen, Jasenka Padjen, Ivica Padjen, Danijel Padjen, Željko Padjen, Lilijana Padjen, Irena Padjen, Danijela Padjen, Zvonimir Padjen

Mentions in sources

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

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