Surname Šola in modern Croatia

Šola families are Croats and they are mostly from east Herzegovina. According to some sources they are from Zadar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in East Herzegovina (Bileca area) and in Zagreb. In Prisoje in East Herzegovina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Šola.

Prevalence

About 420 people with faimily name Šola live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Zagreb (145), Sesvete (40), Djakovo (40), Bjelovar (30), and in Split (30).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šola (including: Sola , Shola , Solla , Solha , Solah , Schola , Solaa , Soola , Szola and Sohla ) is present in 134 countries worldwide. "Shola " is used by some 1000 people in Tanzania , about 400 in Ghana , and some 200 people in Egypt , some 200 people in the United States. "Shoola " is used by some 60 people in Pakistan and small number in the United States. "Sheola " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Marija Šola, Vlado Šola, Miro Šola, Ivica Šola, Tomislav Šola, Pero Šola, Sandi Šola, Petar Šola, Ilija Šola, Sani Šola, Antonija Šola, Stipe Šola, Ivan Šola, Robert Šola, Denis Šola, Stanko Šola, Mirela Šola, Ante Šola, Miše Šola

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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