Name «Stroian»

The name 'Stroian' is a Ukrainian suffix formation derived from the name 'Stroy' or 'Stroya'. It has a comparison with the Croatian masculine name from the 12th century 'Strojan', which originates from 'Strojimir' (according to ŚimĆak 193) with the addition of the suffix '-an'. The first recorded instance of the anthroponym 'Stroian' dates back to 1772. In that year, a juror named Yahanes Cztroyan was recorded as living in the village of Bohirievytsia in the Irshava region (according to the research by Chu "Surnames", page 358).