Surname Sarajlić in modern Croatia

Sarajlić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from middle Bosnia , also Bosniaks (Tuzla region, Bosnia), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Middle Bosnia (Zavidovici area) and in Sibenik. In places Prijanovići and Vražići in Tuzla Region (Bosnia) every tenth inhabitant had the family name Sarajlić.

Prevalence

About 220 people with faimily name Sarajlić live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 33 cities and 33 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Rijeka (35), Slavonski Brod (10), Kutjevo in Orahovica area (10), and in Caglin in Pleternica area (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Sarajlić (including: Sarajlic , Saraylic and Saraylich ) is present in 22 countries on three continents. The family name "Sarajlic " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 50 in Sweden , and small number of people in the Netherlands. "Saraylic " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Narcisa Sarajlić, Milan Sarajlić, Ružica Sarajlić, Marijana Sarajlić, Dino Sarajlić, Dragan Sarajlić, Mladen Sarajlić, Nermina Sarajlić, Dario Sarajlić, Ilija Sarajlić, Mirzet Sarajlić, Predrag Sarajlić, Almaz Sarajlić, Aida Sarajlić, Damir Sarajlić, Ante Sarajlić, Perica Sarajlić, Smilja Sarajlić, Zoran Sarajlić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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