Surname Kajfeš in modern Croatia

Kajfeš families are Croats and they are mostly from Bjelovar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Mala Lešnica in Delnice nearly every inhabitant had the family name Kajfeš.

Prevalence

About 280 people with faimily name Kajfeš live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 32 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Bosnjaci in Zupanja area (35), Luka in Oroslavje area (15), Rijeka (15), and in Osijek (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kajfeš (including: Kajfes , Kayfes , Kaifesh , Kaifes and Kayfesh ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. "Kayfes " is used by some 100 people in the United States. "Kayfesh " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Kaifesh " is used by some 100 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Goran Kajfeš, Davorin Kajfeš, Dubravka Kajfeš, Goranka Kajfeš, Suzana Kajfeš, Anka Kajfeš, Marko Kajfeš, Zvjezdana Kajfeš, Krunoslav Kajfeš, Radmila Kajfeš, Boris Kajfeš, Vesna Kajfeš, Anton Kajfeš, Franjo Kajfeš, Ivica Kajfeš, Saša Kajfeš, Darko Kajfeš, Zrinko Kajfeš, Ana Kajfeš

Mentions in sources

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

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