Surname Šajn in modern Croatia

Šajn families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area and in Ogulin.

Prevalence

About 260 people with faimily name Šajn live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 90 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (110), Donji Vidovec in Prelog area (25), Zagreb (20), Ogulin (20), and in Kladare in Djurdjevac area (10).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (2), the United States (1), Switzerland (1), Canada (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Šajn (including: Sain , Shain , Sayn , Sajn , Schain , Shayn , Sayyn , Shajn , Sajjn and Szajn ) is present in 121 countries worldwide. The family name "Sajn " is used by some 70 people in the United States. "Shayn " is used by some 100 people in Russian Federation , small number in Ukraine , and small number of people in the United States. "Sain " is used by some 20000 people in the United States , about 10000 in Pakistan , and some 9000 people in Indonesia.

Characteristic first names

Petar Šajn, Dean Šajn, Mario Šajn, Nenad Šajn, Goran Šajn, Zorica Šajn, Maša Šajn, Zoran Šajn, Mirko Šajn, Dragan Šajn, Marija Šajn, Željko Šajn, Valter Šajn, Mirela Šajn, Davor Šajn, Iva Šajn, Zlatko Šajn, Ardena Šajn, Ivan Šajn

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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