In Croatia, Geist families are Croats (from Virovitica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Virovitica.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Geist live in Croatia today, in four households only. They are located in one Croatian city only, in Virovitica (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1924 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.