Surname Cik in modern Croatia

Cik families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Koprivnica. In Velika Ostrna in Dugo Selo every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Cik.

Prevalence

About 250 people with faimily name Cik live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Zagreb (120), in Virje (45) and Novo Virje (30) in Djurdjevac area, Djurdjevac (20), and in Podravske Sesvete in Djurdjevac area (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Cik (including: Zick , Zik , Ziek , Ciek , Cieck , Tzik , Cikk , Cick and Zieck ) is present in 139 countries worldwide. "Tzik " is used by few people in the United States. "Ziek " is used by some 100 people in the United States. "Zick " is used by some 2000 people in the United States , about 1000 in Germany , and some 300 people in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Gordana Cik, Katarina Cik, Anita Cik, Dubravko Cik, Robert Cik, Zdravko Cik, Lovro Cik, Tamara Cik, Darija Cik, Suzana Cik, Višnja Cik, Dražen Cik, Goran Cik, Stjepan Cik, Dijana Cik, Jozef Cik, Pero Cik, Ksenija Cik, Ivica Cik

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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