Surname Dijak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Dijak families are Croats (from Virovitica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Virovitica. In Turanovac in Virovitica area every nintieth inhabitant had the family name Dijak.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Dijak live in Croatia today, in 14 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, threee cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Gornji Stupnik in Samobor area (<5), Osijek (<5), and in Kapela Dvor (<5) and Brezik (<5) in Virovitica area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Dijak (including: Dyjak , Diyak , Dyjach , Dyyak , Dyjack and Dyják ) is present in 27 countries worldwide. The family name "Dijak " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in Austria , and small number of people in Canada. "Dyjak " is used by some 1000 people in Poland , about 300 in the United States , and some 100 people in Cambodia. "Dyjack " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Petar Dijak, Zvonimir Dijak, Zlatko Dijak, Nenad Dijak, Natalija Dijak, Andreja Dijak, Alen Dijak, Stjepan Dijak, Irena Dijak, Monika Dijak, Franjo Dijak, Daliborka Dijak, Dragutin Dijak, Dražen Dijak, Ana Dijak, Vlado Dijak, Stevo Dijak, Mato Dijak, Kata Dijak

Mentions in sources

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

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