Surname Vukoja in modern Croatia

Vukoja families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Siroki Brijeg area) and in Herzegovina (Grude area). In places Ljubotići and Donji Mamići in Herzegovina every sixth inhabitant had the family name Vukoja.

Prevalence

About 1200 people with faimily name Vukoja live in Croatia today, in 500 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 59 cities and 118 other places, mostly in Zagreb (335), Sesvete (75), Split (75), Pakostane in Biograd na moru area (60), and in Soljani in Zupanja area (60).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vukoja is present in 16 countries on four continents.

Characteristic first names

Boro Vukoja, Roman Vukoja, Vida Vukoja, Ivo Vukoja, Zdenka Vukoja, Zvonimir Vukoja, Ivanka Vukoja, Miljenko Vukoja, Nikola Vukoja, Božo Vukoja, Marko Vukoja, Mirjana Vukoja, Ivan Vukoja, Nicol Vukoja, Martina Vukoja, Tomislav Vukoja, Vilim Vukoja, Dragan Vukoja, Damir Vukoja

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1924 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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