Surname Gumzej in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Gumzej families are Croats by relative majority (from Zadar ), equally Slovenes (from Slovenia ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Pula.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Gumzej live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and another small place , mostly in Pula (<5), Zagreb (<5), Zadar (<5), and in Novigrad (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Gumzej is present in two countries.

Characteristic first names

Josip Gumzej, Željko Gumzej, Nina Gumzej, Vidko Gumzej, Gvido Gumzej, Jakov Gumzej, Rudolf Gumzej, Štefanija Gumzej, Ivan Gumzej, Vida Gumzej, Zara Gumzej, Dino Gumzej, Igor Gumzej, Helena Gumzej, Franc Gumzej, Ines Gumzej, Jožica Gumzej

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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