Surname Delak in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Delak live in Croatia today, in 14 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Lic in Kraljevica area (15), Zagreb (15), Rijeka (<5), Koprivnica (<5), and in Fuzine in Kraljevica area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Delak (including: Delac , Dellac , Delach , Delache , Delack , Delachat , Delacher , Delachi and Dellack ) is present in 41 countries worldwide. The family name "Delak " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Delack " is used by some 100 people in the United States. "Delac " is used by some 300 people in Mexico , about 200 in the United States , and some 100 people in France.

Characteristic first names

Dragica Delak, Ferdo Delak, Marijan Delak, Vilim Delak, Marcel Delak, Eržebet Delak, Darijo Delak, Miljenko Delak, Nevenko Delak, Jožef Delak, Marija Delak, Aleksandra Delak, Antun Delak, Lucijan Delak, Milena Delak, Matija Delak, Jelka Delak, Ivanka Delak, Veljko Delak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1736 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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