Surname Salja in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Salja families are Croats (from Dugo Selo area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Salja live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in only threee naselja i to in Zagreb (<10), Rijeka (<5), and in Oborovo in Dugo Selo area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Salja (including: Salia , Saliha , Salya , Saliah , Sallia , Sallya , Salyha , Saljah and Shalja ) is present in 67 countries worldwide. "Sallia " is used by small number of people in Morocco , small number of people in the United States , and small number of people in Indonesia , small number of people in Italy. "Shalia " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Salja, Andreja Salja, Vladimir Salja, Biserka Salja, Kristina Salja, Ivica Salja, Agata Salja, Marijan Salja, Zlatko Salja, Nada Salja, Mustafa Salja, Dragutin Salja, Ešref Salja, Jagica Salja

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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