Surname Sobol in modern Croatia

Sobol families are Croats and they are mostly from Bakar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Bakar.

Prevalence

About 170 people with faimily name Sobol live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Hreljin (50), Rijeka (30), Zagreb (15), Nova Bukovica in Slatina area (10), and in Vukovar (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Sobol (including: Soboll , Sobool ) is present in 55 countries worldwide. "Soboll " is used by some 500 people in Germany , about 200 in Brazil , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dragan Sobol, Gordana Sobol, Bojan Sobol, Zoran Sobol, Dražen Sobol, Diego Sobol, Antonio Sobol, Danica Sobol, Igor Sobol, Zorica Sobol, Dejan Sobol, Matko Sobol, Daniela Sobol, Zrinka Sobol, Martina Sobol, Mario Sobol, Vesna Sobol, Elvis Sobol, Zrinko Sobol

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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