Surname Zakarija in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Zakarija families are Croats (from Imotsko ), barely Slovenes (also from Imotsko ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotsko and Dubrovnik.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Zakarija live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Donji Vinjani (20), Zagreb (<10), Dubrovnik (<10), Split (<10), and in Imotski (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Zakarija (including: Zakariya , Zakariyah , Zakhariya , Zackariya , Zakariyya , Zakariyyah , Zakkariya , Zakaryya and Zakariia ) is present in 49 countries worldwide. The family name "Zakarija " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Australia. "Zackariya " is used by some 300 people in Sri Lanka , about 100 in Saudi Arabia , and small number of people in Indonesia , 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

Kruno Zakarija, Vlaho Zakarija, Ivona Zakarija, Daniel Zakarija, Dubravka Zakarija, Aleksandra Zakarija, Tonći Zakarija, Rozarija Zakarija, Ines Zakarija, Danijela Zakarija, Margita Zakarija, Đuro Zakarija, Anton Zakarija, Miranda Zakarija, Đino Zakarija, Zdenka Zakarija, Jadranka Zakarija, Toni Zakarija, Nenad Zakarija

Mentions in sources

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

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