Surname Hunjak in modern Croatia

Hunjak families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zlatar. In Donja Selnica in Zlatar every eighth inhabitant had the family name Hunjak.

Prevalence

About 200 people with faimily name Hunjak live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 20 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Donja Selnica (30), Varazdin (20), Sesvete (10), and in Nova Gradiska (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Hunjak (including: Chunyak , Huniak and Hunyak ) is present in 15 countries on four continents. The family name "Hunjak " is used by few people in Australia and few people in the United States. "Huniak " is used by small number of people in Poland , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Tihomir Hunjak, Blaženka Hunjak, Vladimir Hunjak, Ivan Hunjak, Tomislav Hunjak, Ivica Hunjak, Darko Hunjak, Stjepan Hunjak, Zoran Hunjak, Kristina Hunjak, Željko Hunjak, Hrvoje Hunjak, Robert Hunjak, Maja Hunjak, Velimir Hunjak, Dario Hunjak, Zdravko Hunjak, Ivana Hunjak, Martina Hunjak

Mentions in sources

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

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