Surname Samardžija in modern Croatia

Samardžija families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Podrinje (Bosnia), often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pozega and in Middle Bosnia (Maglaj area). In Ponijevo in Middle Bosnia every ninth inhabitant had the family name Samardžija.

Prevalence

About 980 people with faimily name Samardžija live in Croatia today, in 460 households. There were 1100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 54 cities and 129 other places, mostly in Zagreb (125), Karlovac (55), Pozega (35), Knin (35), and in Slavonski Brod (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 21 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (8), the United States (7), Switzerland (2), Australia (2), France (1), and to Austria (1).
Family name Samardžija (including: Samardzija , Samardija , Samardjija and Samardzhiya ) is present in 19 countries worldwide. The family name "Samardzija " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 100 in Canada , and small number of people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Marko Samardžija, Jasminka Samardžija, Zorislav Samardžija, Višnja Samardžija, Marina Samardžija, Nikola Samardžija, Goran Samardžija, Lidija Samardžija, Radojka Samardžija, Zdravko Samardžija, Josip Samardžija, Zoran Samardžija, Dušanka Samardžija, Mićo Samardžija, Tamara Samardžija, Ivo Samardžija, Nenad Samardžija, Ivica Samardžija, Darija Samardžija

Mentions in sources

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.

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