Surname Penava.

  • Surname Penava in modern Croatia

    Penava families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Posusje area) and in Middle Bosnia (Tesanj area). In Batin in Herzegovina every second inhabitant had the family name Penava.

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  • Prevalence

    About 760 people with faimily name Penava live in Croatia today, in 290 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 48 cities and 89 other places, mostly in Zagreb (190), Split (80), Sesvete (65), Djakovo (30), and in Imotski (25).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Penava is present in 15 countries on four continents. The family name "Penava " is used by some 200 people in Germany , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Canada.

  • Characteristic first names

    Šimun Penava, Tonka Penava, Željko Penava, Ivan Penava, Milan Penava, Ante Penava, Zoran Penava, Zore Penava, Renata Penava, Josip Penava, Anselma Penava, Ivica Penava, Katarina Penava, Marinko Penava, Zdenka Penava, Branko Penava, Olga Penava, Zvonko Penava, Miljenko Penava

  • Last name Penava around the globe

    See the countries where surname Penava is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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