Surname Spoja in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Spoja live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and another small place , mostly in Bribir in Novi Vinodolski area (40), Crikvenica (<10), Novi Vinodolski (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Rijeka (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Canada (2), the United Kingdom (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Spoja (including: Spoya , Spoia ) is present in 7 countries on three continents. The family name "Spoja " is used by some 70 people in the United States. "Spoia " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zoran Spoja, Čedomir Spoja, Robert Spoja, Vesna Spoja, Tanja Spoja, Sanjin Spoja, Milorad Spoja, Iva Spoja, Dorijan Spoja, Alenka Spoja, Ivica Spoja, Igor Spoja, Nenad Spoja, Andrea Spoja, Ivan Spoja, Davor Spoja, Damjan Spoja, Vladimir Spoja, Radovan Spoja

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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