Surname Šajnović in modern Croatia

Šajnović families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Garesnica. According to some sources they are from Vinkovci area or even Biokovo area, and rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Garesnica. In Zapolje Brodsko in Delnice every third inhabitant had the family name Šajnović.

Prevalence

About 570 people with faimily name Šajnović live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 410 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 36 cities and 84 other places, mostly in Veliki Pasijan (75), Zagreb (35), Omisalj on the Island of Krk (25), Zapolje Brodsko (25), and in Zasadbreg in Cakovec area (20).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šajnović (including: Sajnovic , Sainovich , Shaynovich , Sainovic , Saynovich , Shainovich and Shajnovich ) is present in 12 countries worldwide. "Sainovich " is used by some 50 people in Brazil and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Šajnović, Petar Šajnović, Darko Šajnović, Marija Šajnović, Dejan Šajnović, Roman Šajnović, Milorad Šajnović, Martina Šajnović, Antun Šajnović, Jurica Šajnović, Elvis Šajnović, Bojana Šajnović, Vladimir Šajnović, Davorin Šajnović, Saša Šajnović, Mile Šajnović, Branka Šajnović, Zlatica Šajnović, Jasna Šajnović

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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