Surname Šabalja in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Šabalja families are Croats (from the Island of Krk ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and on the Island of Krk. In Porat on the Island of Krk every tenth inhabitant had the family name Šabalja.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Šabalja live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Porat (10) and Milcetici (<10) on the Island of Krk, Rijeka (<5), Malinska on the Island of Krk (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Šabalja (including: Sabalja , Sabalia , Shabalia , Sabaliah and Shabalya ) is present in 7 countries on three continents. The family name "Sabalja " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Đani Šabalja, Ivan Šabalja, Nenad Šabalja, Doris Šabalja, Danijel Šabalja, Filip Šabalja, Augustin Šabalja, Anton Šabalja, Margarita Šabalja, Antonia Šabalja, Marija Šabalja, Mare Šabalja, Merica Šabalja, Edita Šabalja, Kristina Šabalja, Tomislav Šabalja, Franko Šabalja, Roberta Šabalja, Tino Šabalja

Mentions in sources

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

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