Surname Šamija.

  • Surname Šamija in modern Croatia

    Šamija families are Croats and they are mostly from Imotski area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Middle Bosnia (Vitez area) and in Imotski area. In Kratine in Middle Bosnia every third inhabitant had the family name Šamija.

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  • Prevalence

    About 300 people with faimily name Šamija live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
    They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 23 cities and 15 other places, mostly in Split (70), Lovrec in Imotski area (40), Dubrava (35), Zagreb (30), and in Knin (20).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Šamija (including: Samija , Samieva , Samiya , Samiyah , Shamiya , Samijah , Shamija , Samiyya , Samiaa and Samiia ) is present in 43 countries worldwide. "Shamiya " is used by some 50 people in the United States and small number in Austria.

  • Characteristic first names

    Ivana Šamija, Krešimir Šamija, Ivan Šamija, Mirko Šamija, Branimir Šamija, Borko Šamija, Suzana Šamija, Nikola Šamija, Sandra Šamija, Vjekoslav Šamija, Marijan Šamija, Damir Šamija, Dragan Šamija, Jelena Šamija, Tea Šamija, Zoran Šamija, Ružica Šamija, Marinka Šamija, Maja Šamija

  • Last name Šamija around the globe

    See the countries where surname Šamija is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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