Šerfezi families are Croats and they are mostly from Djakovo. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djakovo and Slavonski Brod. In Ljeljenča in Semberia (Bosnia) every third inhabitant had the family name Šerfezi.
Prevalence
About 70 people with faimily name Šerfezi live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Djakovo (10), Cakovci in Ilok area (<10), Slavonski Brod (<10), Donji Andrijevci in Djakovo area (<10), and in Zagreb (<10).
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.