Surname Samardjija in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Samardjija live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in only two naselja i to in Zagreb (<5) and Kupinecki Kraljevec (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Samardjija is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Samardjija, Danica Samardjija, Andja Samardjija, Marija Samardjija, Jovan Samardjija, Petar Samardjija, Boja Samardjija, Danice Samardjija, Ilija Samardjija, Jandrija Samardjija, Manda Samardjija, Marko Samardjija, Mile Samardjija, Miloš Samardjija, Obrad Samardjija, Pilip Samardjija, Reza Samardjija, Spiro Samardjija, Stjepan Samardjija

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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