Surname Rađa in modern Croatia

Rađa families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area. According to other sources they immigrated to Dalmatia from Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and in Sinj area. In places Donje Ogorje and Velika Milešina in Sinj area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Rađa.

Prevalence

About 330 people with faimily name Rađa live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Split (195), Solin (45), Rijeka (15), Zagreb (10), and in Pula (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rađa (including: Rada , Radja , Radha , Radia , Ragia , Radya , Radda , Radah , Ragya and Ragja ) is present in 122 countries worldwide. "Radda " is used by some 100 people in Austria , about 100 in the United States , and some 90 people in Indonesia. "Radaa " is used by few people in the United States. "Rhada " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dino Rađa, Marko Rađa, Smiljana Rađa, Mate Rađa, Krunoslav Rađa, Biljana Rađa, Tihomil Rađa, Božidar Rađa, Branko Rađa, Marija Rađa, Joško Rađa, Ante Rađa, Franka Rađa, Sandro Rađa, Siniša Rađa, Vlasta Rađa, Edo Rađa, Mirjana Rađa, Luka Rađa

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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