Surname Stunja in modern Croatia

Stunja families are Croats and they are mostly from Samobor. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Samobor. In Petkov Breg in Samobor every third inhabitant had the family name Stunja.

Prevalence

About 160 people with faimily name Stunja live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Petkov Breg (60), Gornje Oresje (15), Rakov Potok (10), Koprivnica (<10), and in Donji Desinec (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least ten families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (9) and Germany (1).
Family name Stunja is present in five countries on two continents. The family name "Stunja " is used by some 60 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Milan Stunja, Sanja Stunja, Marija Stunja, Željka Stunja, Mario Stunja, Suzana Stunja, Renata Stunja, Marijan Stunja, Ivan Stunja, Zdenko Stunja, Rajko Stunja, Zvonimir Stunja, Ivica Stunja, Josip Stunja, Franjo Stunja, Draženko Stunja, Damir Stunja, Dubravko Stunja, Donat Stunja

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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