Salaj families are Croats and they are mostly from Nasice area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Osijek. In Salajci in Vrbovec area every third inhabitant had the family name Salaj.
Prevalence
About 540 people with faimily name Salaj live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 720 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 37 cities and 61 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Osijek (45), Siscani (25), Salajci in Vrbovec area (25), and in Cepin in Osijek area (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.