Surname Zaharija in modern Croatia

Zaharija families are Croats and they are mostly from Rijeka area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Pula. In Pifari in Pazin area every second inhabitant had the family name Zaharija.

Prevalence

About 330 people with faimily name Zaharija live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 28 other places, mostly in Rovinj (50), Rijeka (30), in Soboli (30) and Podhum (25) in Rijeka area, and in Krnicari in Pazin area (25).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (2), Australia (2), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Zaharija (including: Zahariea , Zachariya , Zahariya and Zachariaa ) is present in 15 countries worldwide. The family name "Zaharija " is used by small number of people in Australia and small number of people in the United States. "Zachariya " is used by few people in Malawi , few people in the United States , and few people in Zimbabwe.

Characteristic first names

Dragan Zaharija, Damir Zaharija, Kristina Zaharija, Iva Zaharija, Žarko Zaharija, Rajko Zaharija, Ljiljana Zaharija, Boris Zaharija, Marijana Zaharija, Igor Zaharija, Goran Zaharija, Barbara Zaharija, Mira Zaharija, Romanita Zaharija, Antonela Zaharija, Silvia Zaharija, Sanja Zaharija, Samanta Zaharija, Nadan Zaharija

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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