Surname Filjak in modern Croatia

Filjak 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 Djurdjevac area and in Nasice area.

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Filjak live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 180 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 14 other places, mostly in Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (50), Zagreb (25), Kladare in Djurdjevac area (20), Djurdjenovac in Nasice area (15), and in Rijeka (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Filjak (including: Filyak , Filiaci , Filiak , Feljak and Filyac ) is present in 13 countries on four continents. "Filiak " is used by small number of people in Ukraine and small number in the United States. "Filyac " is used by few people in the United States. "Filiaci " is used by some 200 people in Italy , about 100 in the United States , and some 70 people in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Željko Filjak, Marijanka Filjak, Zlatko Filjak, Katarina Filjak, Anita Filjak, Matija Filjak, Zdenka Filjak, Ankica Filjak, Marijan Filjak, Vesna Filjak, Josipa Filjak, Siniša Filjak, Snježana Filjak, Tomislav Filjak, Dražena Filjak, Franjo Filjak, Josip Filjak, Martina Filjak, Ranko Filjak

Mentions in sources

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

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