Surname Salamon in modern Croatia

Salamon families are Croats and they are mostly from Labin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Salamon live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Rijeka (20), Vukovar (10), Kozljak in Labin area (10), and in Ogulin (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least 13 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (9), Australia (3), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Salamon (including: Salamoon , Shalamon ) is present in 78 countries worldwide. The family name "Salamon " is used by some 10000 people in Poland , about 6000 in Hungary , and some 5000 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Davor Salamon, Velimir Salamon, Ratko Salamon, Sabina Salamon, Krešimir Salamon, Đurđica Salamon, Tomislav Salamon, Josip Salamon, Željko Salamon, Zvonko Salamon, Elvis Salamon, Tatjana Salamon, Lidija Salamon, Miroslav Salamon, Biserka Salamon, Maja Salamon, Franko Salamon, Ružica Salamon, Sanja Salamon

Mentions in sources

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

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