Surname Sebastijan in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Sebastijan families are Croats (from Nova Gradiska area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Vinkovci area.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Sebastijan live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Vinkovci (20), Pula (<10), Dubrovnik (<10), Velika Gorica (<10), and in Bestovje in Samobor area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Sebastijan (including: Sebastiyan , Sebastiaan and Sebastiian ) is present in 14 countries on three continents. "Sebastiaan " is used by some 50 people in the Netherlands , small number in Belgium , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Siniša Sebastijan, Antun Sebastijan, Hrvoje Sebastijan, Slavko Sebastijan, Marijo Sebastijan, Jasna Sebastijan, Nela Sebastijan, David Sebastijan, Vlado Sebastijan, Božica Sebastijan, Ivana Sebastijan, Kristijan Sebastijan, Rebeka Sebastijan, Andrea Sebastijan, Vesna Sebastijan, Đurđa Sebastijan, Stjepan Sebastijan, Pero Sebastijan, Davor Sebastijan

Mentions in sources

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

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