Surname Čargonja in modern Croatia

Čargonja 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 in Rijeka area. In places Buzdohanj and Grobnik in Rijeka area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Čargonja.

Prevalence

About 390 people with faimily name Čargonja live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 410 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are only located in in 14 Croatian cities and 29 other places, mostly in Rijeka (170), and in Buzdohanj (75), Cavle (40), Podrvanj (15) and Podhum (10) in Rijeka area.

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to France (2) and the United States (2).
Family name Čargonja (including: Cargonja , Cargonia ) is present in four countries on two continents. The family name "Cargonja " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Cargonia " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Hajdi Čargonja, Darko Čargonja, Petra Čargonja, Damir Čargonja, Hrvoje Čargonja, Rajko Čargonja, Marinko Čargonja, Nataša Čargonja, Jenny Čargonja, Loren Čargonja, Paula Čargonja, Zoran Čargonja, Jelena Čargonja, Danor Čargonja, Đenni Čargonja, Nenad Čargonja, Đurđica Čargonja, Sanja Čargonja, Denis Čargonja

Mentions in sources

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

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