Surname Sabol in modern Croatia

Sabol families are Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area. According to some sources they are from Kotoribe. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and in Prelog area. In Palinovec in Prelog area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Sabol.

Prevalence

About 800 people with faimily name Sabol live in Croatia today, in 350 households. There were 980 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 33 cities and 90 other places, mostly in Cakovec (110), Zagreb (110), in Palinovec (75) and Donji Kraljevec (30) in Prelog area, and in Varazdin (25).

Outside Croatia

Family name Sabol (including: Shabol , Szabol , Sabool and Shahbol ) is present in 30 countries worldwide. The family name "Sabol " is used by some 7000 people in the United States , about 1000 in Slovakia , and some 400 people in Czech Republic. "Shahbol " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zlatko Sabol, Damir Sabol, Gabrijela Sabol, Blažen Sabol, Filip Sabol, Goran Sabol, Tomislav Sabol, Jadranka Sabol, Spomenka Sabol, Slavica Sabol, Željko Sabol, Danica Sabol, Ivan Sabol, Alen Sabol, Anita Sabol, Vladimir Sabol, Ines Sabol, Stanko Sabol, Maja Sabol

Mentions in sources

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

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