Surname Tadej in modern Croatia

Tadej families are Croats and they are mostly from Kraljevica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Bakar. In Benkovac Fužinski in Kraljevica area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Tadej.

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Tadej live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 0 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 20 other places, mostly in Rijeka (35), Zagreb (30), Hreljin (25), Jablan (15), and in Fuzine in Kraljevica area (10).

Outside Croatia

At least 12 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (8), Australia (2), and to Canada (2).
Family name Tadej (including: Tadei , Thadei , Thadey , Tadey , Taddey , Thaddey , Thadee , Taaddee and Tadee ) is present in 36 countries worldwide. The family name "Tadej " is used by some 90 people in the United States , about 70 in Poland , and small number of people in France. "Tadey " is used by some 300 people in Argentina , about 100 in Tanzania , and small number of people in the United States. "Thadey " is used by some 2000 people in Tanzania , small number in France , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Radovan Tadej, Valter Tadej, Neven Tadej, Perla Tadej, Mladen Tadej, Ljiljana Tadej, Mirela Tadej, Jasna Tadej, Miroslav Tadej, Doris Tadej, Alen Tadej, Luka Tadej, Kristina Tadej, Snježana Tadej, Mato Tadej, Elizabeta Tadej, Tamara Tadej, Vladimir Tadej, Darko Tadej

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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