Surname Pikija in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pikija families are Croats (from Novi Marof ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof and Varazdin.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Pikija live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, four cities and threee other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Novi Marof (<10), Madzarevo (<10), Varazdin (<5), and in Krc (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pikija (including: Pichiya , Pichiyya , Pikieva and Pichaiya ) is present in 9 countries worldwide. "Pichiya " is used by some 1000 people in Guatemala and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Slaven Pikija, Mato Pikija, Mladen Pikija, Petar Pikija, Anamarija Pikija, Domagoj Pikija, Boris Pikija, Tamara Pikija, Damir Pikija, Danijela Pikija, Nikolina Pikija, Dragica Pikija, Darinka Pikija, Zdenka Pikija, Irena Pikija, Saša Pikija, Andreja Pikija, Ana Pikija, Franciska Pikija

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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