Strahija families are Croats and they are mostly from Mursko Sredisce area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Prelog. In Prhoć in Jastrebarsko every tenth inhabitant had the family name Strahija.
Prevalence
About 310 people with faimily name Strahija live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 33 other places, mostly in Cakovec (35), Donji Kraljevec in Prelog area (25), Cehovec (25), and in Gorican (20) and Gardinovec (15) in Cakovec area.
Outside Croatia
Family name Strahija is present in four countries on two continents. The family name "Strahija " is used by small number of people in the United States.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.