Surname Žgomba in modern Croatia

Žgomba families are Croats and they are mostly from Pula area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rovinj. In Muntić in Pula area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Žgomba.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Žgomba live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in two Croatian counties, threee cities and 12 other places, mostly in Pula (40), Cere in Pazin area (15), Muntic in Pula area (<10), Rijeka (<10), and in Vodnjan in Pula area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Žgomba is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Boris Žgomba, Vesna Žgomba, Sergio Žgomba, Sanja Žgomba, Izidor Žgomba, Danijela Žgomba, Dean Žgomba, Jelica Žgomba, Nina Žgomba, Mirjana Žgomba, Bruna Žgomba, Dalibor Žgomba, Mirela Žgomba, Marino Žgomba, Ivana Žgomba, Viliam Žgomba, Gordana Žgomba, Monika Žgomba, Mladenka Žgomba

Mentions in sources

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.

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