Surname Bezjak in modern Croatia

Bezjak families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada area , barely Slovenes. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac. In Gornje Stative in Karlovac every seventh inhabitant had the family name Bezjak.

Prevalence

About 560 people with faimily name Bezjak live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 730 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 31 cities and 61 other places, mostly in Zagreb (100), Karlovac (50), Rijeka (35), Sesvete (35), and in Marinici in Rijeka area (25).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bezjak (including: Bezyak , Bezyack , Bezjack , Bezlyak and Beziak ) is present in 16 countries worldwide. The family name "Bezjak " is used by some 200 people in Mozambique , about 100 in the United States , and some 100 people in Germany. "Bezyak " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Bezyack " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Andrej Bezjak, Marijan Bezjak, Sandra Bezjak, Tatjana Bezjak, Krešimir Bezjak, Željko Bezjak, Branimir Bezjak, Igor Bezjak, Veljko Bezjak, Robert Bezjak, Vladimir Bezjak, Sanja Bezjak, Boris Bezjak, Dalibor Bezjak, Marijo Bezjak, Mladen Bezjak, Zlatko Bezjak, Siniša Bezjak, Vjeran Bezjak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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