Surname Žmak in modern Croatia

Žmak families are Croats and they are mostly from Pula. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rijeka. In Lanišće in Buzet area every thirtieth inhabitant had the family name Žmak.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Žmak live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Pula (50), Rijeka (15), Zagreb (<10), Umag (<10), and in Medulin in Pula area (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (4), Germany (3), the United States (2), Canada (1), and to France (1).
Family name Žmak (including: Zmak , Zhmak , Zhumak , Zmach , Zmack and Zhamak ) is present in 16 countries on four continents. The family name "Zmak " is used by some 200 people in Hungary , about 90 in the United States , and some 60 people in Canada. "Zmach " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Žmak, Irena Žmak, Ljiljana Žmak, Vladimir Žmak, Dražen Žmak, Slaven Žmak, Vesna Žmak, Marijan Žmak, Suzana Žmak, Denis Žmak, Lidija Žmak, Alfredo Žmak, Daniel Žmak, Nataša Žmak, Dajana Žmak, Mladen Žmak, Dorjano Žmak, Vanda Žmak, Romilda Žmak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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