Surname Tolj in modern Croatia

Tolj families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrgorac. According to some sources they are from Velikog Prologa. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrgorac and in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanska Gradiska area). In Greda in Bosanian Posavina nearly every inhabitant had the family name Tolj.

Prevalence

About 830 people with faimily name Tolj live in Croatia today, in 320 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 54 other places, mostly in Orebic on the Peljesac peninsula (105), Zagreb (95), Osijek (90), Split (80), and in Stilja (75).

Outside Croatia

Family name Tolj (including: Toli , Tolli , Tolly , Toly , Tholi , Tolii , Tholli , Tholy and Tholj ) is present in 73 countries worldwide. The family name "Tolj " is used by some 300 people in Germany , about 60 in the United States , and some 60 people in Australia. "Tolli " is used by some 700 people in Benin , about 700 in Italy , and some 300 people in the United States. "Tholj " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mirela Tolj, Slobodan Tolj, Gorana Tolj, Ivan Tolj, Silvana Tolj, Slaven Tolj, Zvonko Tolj, Marija Tolj, Nikolina Tolj, Ernest Tolj, Smiljan Tolj, Marijana Tolj, Zdravka Tolj, Denis Tolj, Krešimir Tolj, Mijo Tolj, Ljilja Tolj, Tihomir Tolj, Perica Tolj

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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