Surname Zadrija in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Zadrija families are Croats (from Vrbovec ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovec and Bakar. In Vrhovec in Vrbovec every eighth inhabitant had the family name Zadrija.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Zadrija live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and 6 other places, mostly in Vrhovec (<10), Lonjica (<10), Dulepska (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Vrbovec (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Zadrija is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Marjan Zadrija, Katarina Zadrija, Dražen Zadrija, Ivica Zadrija, Josip Zadrija, Valentina Zadrija, Stjepan Zadrija, Milan Zadrija, Jadranka Zadrija, Ivančica Zadrija, Igor Zadrija, Đurđica Zadrija, Ana Zadrija, Pavao Zadrija, Kata Zadrija, Marica Zadrija, Vjekoslav Zadrija, Ivan Zadrija, Vlado Zadrija

Mentions in sources

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

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