Surname Gajšak in modern Croatia

Gajšak families are Croats and they are mostly from Pregrada. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Pregrada. In Kostel in Pregrada every seventh inhabitant had the family name Gajšak.

Prevalence

About 270 people with faimily name Gajšak live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 350 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 32 other places, mostly in Zagreb (110), Kostel (20), Bregi Kostelski (15), Kostelsko (15), and in Police (10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Germany (1) and the United States (1).
Family name Gajšak (including: Gaysak , Galyshak and Gajsak ) is present in four countries.

Characteristic first names

Roland Gajšak, Zdravko Gajšak, Tihomir Gajšak, Irena Gajšak, Zoran Gajšak, Ivica Gajšak, Tomislav Gajšak, Eugen Gajšak, Ivanka Gajšak, Đurđica Gajšak, Zvjezdana Gajšak, Dorijana Gajšak, Blaženka Gajšak, Božica Gajšak, Dalibor Gajšak, Drago Gajšak, Predrag Gajšak, Dragutin Gajšak, Jasminka Gajšak

Mentions in sources

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

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