Surname Radja in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Radja families are Croats (from Krizevci area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Backa, Vojvodina.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Radja live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located and two other Croatian places, mostly in Split (15), Zagreb (<5), Rijeka (<5), Sesvete (<5), and in Vinkovci (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Radja (including: Radia , Radjah , Radya , Rahdja , Radhya and Radyya ) is present in 54 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Tihomil Radja, Marko Radja, Jelena Radja, Ivica Radja, Ivan Radja, Renata Radja, Mihovil Radja, Krešimir Radja, Anita Radja, Branko Radja, Domagoj Radja, Ante Radja, Davor Radja, Vladimir Radja, Željka Radja, Tonka Radja, Željko Radja, Jasminka Radja, Ivana Radja

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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