Surname Šunjić in modern Croatia

Šunjić families are Croats and they are mostly from Ploce. According to some sources they are from Mostar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Mostar area) and in Metkovic. In Rogotin in Ploce every fourth inhabitant had the family name Šunjić.

Prevalence

About 860 people with faimily name Šunjić live in Croatia today, in 330 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 44 cities and 55 other places, mostly in Rogotin (185), Split (165), Zagreb (115), Stasevica (70), and in Metkovic (50).

Outside Croatia

At least 12 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (3), Australia (3), South Africa (2), Germany (2), Canada (1), and to New Zealand (1).
Family name Šunjić (including: Sunjic , Sunjich and Sunyich ) is present in 18 countries worldwide. The family name "Sunjic " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 80 in Germany , and some 70 people in Australia. "Sunyich " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Marijan Šunjić, Hrvojka Šunjić, Hrvoje Šunjić, Vitomir Šunjić, Žarko Šunjić, Mišel Šunjić, Petar Šunjić, Ivana Šunjić, Ivan Šunjić, Antun Šunjić, Ankica Šunjić, Miroslav Šunjić, Mijo Šunjić, Leo Šunjić, Vedran Šunjić, Kristijan Šunjić, Anto Šunjić, Sandra Šunjić, Helena Šunjić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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