Surname Kalik in modern Croatia

Kalik families are podjednako Croats (the family name originates from Sibenik ) and Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis and Sibenik. In Nos Kalik in Drnis every third inhabitant had the family name Kalik.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Kalik live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and four other places, mostly in Sibenik (45), Zagreb (10), Rijeka (<10), Bilice in Sibenik area (<10), and in Opatija (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kalik (including: Khalik , Kalic , Kalichak , Kalick , Kallick , Khalikh , Kalikh , Kahlik and Kallik ) is present in 95 countries worldwide. The family name "Kalik " is used by some 700 people in Germany , about 700 in Turkey , and some 600 people in the United States. "Kalick " is used by some 200 people in the United States and small number in South Africa. "Kallik " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Joško Kalik, Branko Kalik, Ljiljana Kalik, Marko Kalik, Suzana Kalik, Milan Kalik, Mladen Kalik, Vinko Kalik, Jadranka Kalik, Mile Kalik, Cvita Kalik, Danijel Kalik, Dejan Kalik, Mirela Kalik, Irinej Kalik, Spiro Kalik, Danka Kalik, Ružica Kalik, Mateo Kalik

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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