Surname Bijač in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Bijač families are Croats (from Koprivnica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Koprivnica and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Bijač live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Koprivnica (15), Zagreb (<10), Samobor (<10), Dubrovnik (<5), and in Sudjuradj (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bijač (including: Bijac , Bilyach and Bierach ) is present in 14 countries on four continents. "Bierach " is used by some 90 people in the United States and about 60 in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Zoran Bijač, Ana Bijač, Siniša Bijač, Mario Bijač, Denis Bijač, Enerika Bijač, Dino Bijač, Željka Bijač, Darko Bijač, Nikola Bijač, Gordana Bijač, Bojana Bijač, Dubravka Bijač, Brankica Bijač, Marija Bijač, Dubravko Bijač, Tatjana Bijač, Damir Bijač, Petra Bijač

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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