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Šojat

Šojat. Attested in Croatia, Poland, Slovenia, Denmark, borne by about 485 people in the registers this map holds.

The spellings of Šojat

This is the one list the atlas keeps of which spellings are the same name, and what each rests on. Case, spacing, hyphens and apostrophes are not counted as separate spellings, so De Franceschi and Defranceschi are one form. An accent is: a priest's Lereña is not a clerk's Lerena.

Searching for this name? Try every one of: Šojat · Sojat

Met on this line's records

Met on a record of this family's line by the archive that read it.

  • Šojat this page
    what it rests on
    • Written with the háček on 26 rows. Croatia · the Blažević family archive
  • Sojat
    what it rests on
    • The háček dropped: 2 rows. Croatia · the Blažević family archive
2 possible variants, unverified — names that only sound alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence. Nobody has checked these against a record. Treat one as a lead to look for, never as a finding.

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On the map

  • A country that counted the name
  • Attested by a register, not counted
  • A place of this name

Where it is borne, and where a record names it. A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. A dashed ring is attested by a register but not counted — Denmark publishes which surnames exist and not how many carry each. Sizing those by a number nobody published would invent it. Blank is not absence. This draws the 4 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

It is also the name of a place

The places are drawn on the map above. A dot there is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Sojat India pop. 43,023

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Croatia

454 Borne — a state counted them — Names and surnames in the Republic of Croatia, 2011 Population Census (DZS).

Names and surnames in the Republic of Croatia, 2011 Population Census (DZS) answers questions rather than publishing a list. This name was asked about because the atlas already holds it elsewhere — a name absent here may simply never have been asked about, not absent from Croatia.

Whose archive to write to

36 of 5,232 volumes held for Croatia overlap the 1940s — the decades Šojat is attested here. None is known to name Šojat: a volume overlapping these years is a document from the right place and time, not a confirmed match. Worth an afternoon.

Poland

23 Borne — a state counted them — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL (z uwzględnieniem osób zmarłych).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Šojat in Poland, so it cannot narrow Poland's 15,758 volumes by date — see Poland's own page for all of it.

Slovenia

8 Borne — a state counted them — Family names, Slovenia, 2026 (SURS tables 05X1015S–05X1018S).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Šojat in Slovenia, so it cannot narrow Slovenia's 2,132 volumes by date — see Slovenia's own page for all of it.

Denmark

Borne — a state counted them — Navne registreret i Danmark, January 2020 (Danmarks Statistik, republished by Digitaliseringsstyrelsen).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Šojat in Denmark, so it cannot narrow Denmark's 23,346 volumes by date — see Denmark's own page for all of it.

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

Croatia
  • Civil Croatia 7 eras Kingdom of Croatia in personal union with Hungary → Kingdom of Croatia under the Habsburg monarchy → Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (within the Hungarian half) → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
  • Slavonia 8 eras Kingdom of Croatia in personal union with Hungary → Ottoman Slavonia → Habsburg → Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (within the Hungarian half) → …
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Southern Istria 9 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia → Republic of Venice → Austria → Napoleonic → …
  • The Kvarner — Rijeka 8 eras Frankopan counts of Krk and Vinodol → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Dalmatia 10 eras Hungarian–Croatian crown → Republic of Venice → Austria → French Illyria → …
  • Western Istria 9 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia → Republic of Venice → Austria → Napoleonic → …
  • Gorski Kotar: Brod na Kupi and Kuželj 7 eras Frankopan lordships, later Zrinski estates → Habsburg Croatia: estates divided after the Zrinski-Frankopan plot → County of Severin → Illyrian Provinces → …
  • The Senj and Vinodol coast 9 eras Frankopan counts of Krk (Vinodol, Senj), later Zrinski lords at Bakar; Senj captaincy from 1469 → Habsburg crown lands; Senj under the Military Frontier (Otočac regiment) → French Empire, Illyrian Provinces (Civil and Military Croatia) → Austrian Empire: the Littoral under the ban from 1822; Senj in the Otočac regiment → …
  • Labin and eastern Istria 8 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia, with a period under the dukes of Pazin → Republic of Venice: Labin → Austria, after the Treaty of Campo Formio → Illyrian Provinces → …
  • The Republic of Ragusa: Dubrovnik, Konavle, Mljet and Lastovo 6 eras Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) → Kingdom of Italy, then the Illyrian Provinces → Austria: Kingdom of Dalmatia, Dubrovnik county → Yugoslavia; Italy held Lastovo (Lagosta) → …
  • Kastav, Opatija and the Liburnian coast 7 eras Lords of Walsee at Kastav; estates of the Patriarchs of Aquileia on the coast → Habsburg lordship of Kastav; Habsburg Istria → Illyrian Provinces → Austria-Hungary: Austrian Littoral → …
  • Cres and Lošinj, the northern Kvarner islands 7 eras Republic of Venice → Austria, province of Istria → French rule, then the Illyrian Provinces → Austria, then Austria-Hungary: Istria and the Austrian Littoral → …
  • Rab, Pag and the Zadar archipelago 8 eras Republic of Venice: Rab, Pag and the Zadar islands → First Austrian rule: Dalmatia administered from Zadar → Kingdom of Italy, then the Illyrian Provinces → Austria: Kingdom of Dalmatia from 1815 → …
  • Hvar and Vis, the outer Adriatic islands 7 eras Republic of Venice: Hvar and Vis → Austria, after the Treaty of Campo Formio → Kingdom of Italy, then the Illyrian Provinces → British naval occupation: Vis from 1811, Hvar from 1813 → …
  • The Imotski frontier 7 eras Ottoman Empire → Republic of Venice → Austria → French Illyria → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
  • The Military Frontier — Vojna krajina 8 eras Habsburg military frontier, under Graz and Vienna → Habsburg → Croatia-Slavonia, within Hungary → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Yugoslavia → …
Poland
Slovenia
  • Prekmurje — the Hungarian Mur-land 8 eras Kingdom of Hungary → Royal Hungary → Habsburg → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Kastav, Opatija and the Liburnian coast 7 eras Lords of Walsee at Kastav; estates of the Patriarchs of Aquileia on the coast → Habsburg lordship of Kastav; Habsburg Istria → Illyrian Provinces → Austria-Hungary: Austrian Littoral → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
Denmark

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