Surname Šef in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Šef families are Croats (from Koprivnica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Koprivnica and in Koprivnica area.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Šef live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and threee other places, mostly in Koprivnica (15), Slavonski Brod (<10), Zagreb (<5), Carevdar (<5), and in Lepavina in Koprivnica area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šef (including: Shef , Seph , Sheff , Sef , Seef , Seff , Schef , Septh , Sheph and Szef ) is present in 102 countries worldwide. "Sheph " is used by few people in the United States. "Septh " is used by small number of people in Indonesia and small number in the United States. "Seff " is used by some 800 people in Indonesia , about 400 in the United States , and some 100 people in Tanzania.

Characteristic first names

Davorin Šef, Dubravko Šef, Dušan Šef, Ivan Šef, Krešimir Šef, Branislav Šef, Karmica Šef, Franc Šef, Lana Šef, Aleksandar Šef, Tomaž Šef, Miljenko Šef, Momčilo Šef, Božo Šef, Ivica Šef, Majda Šef, Marijan Šef, Kristina Šef, Željka Šef

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1935 in source Faculty of Humanities University of Zagreb Alumni.

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