Surname Šolaja.

  • Surname Šolaja in modern Croatia

    Šolaja families are often Croats and they are mostly from Bosanske krajine , less frequently Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosnian Krajina (Prijedor area) and in Zagreb. In Donji Volar in Bosnian Krajina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Šolaja.

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  • Prevalence

    About 430 people with faimily name Šolaja live in Croatia today, in 200 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
    They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 42 cities and 61 other places, mostly in Zagreb (90), Sisak (30), Petrinja (30), Rijeka (20), and in Posavski Podgajci in Zupanja area (15).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Šolaja (including: Solaja , Sholaja , Solaya , Sholaya and Solayya ) is present in 23 countries worldwide. The family name "Solaja " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 60 in Canada , and small number of people in Australia. "Sholaja " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Solaya " is used by small number of people in Egypt and small number in the United States.

  • Characteristic first names

    Mario Šolaja, Igor Šolaja, Vesnica Šolaja, Nikola Šolaja, Željko Šolaja, Vedrana Šolaja, Julio Šolaja, Gordana Šolaja, Zoran Šolaja, Andrej Šolaja, Anica Šolaja, Ivana Šolaja, Ilija Šolaja, Milan Šolaja, Dalibor Šolaja, Kristijan Šolaja, Anto Šolaja, Ljerka Šolaja, Daniela Šolaja

  • Last name Šolaja around the globe

    See the countries where surname Šolaja 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 over five times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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