Surname Kiseljak in modern Croatia

Kiseljak families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Krapina area and in Zagreb. In Orehovec Radobojski in Krapina area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Kiseljak.

Prevalence

About 370 people with faimily name Kiseljak live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 410 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 24 cities and 37 other places, mostly in Zagreb (85), in Orehovec Radobojski (35) and Jazvine (25) in Krapina area, Krapina (20), and in Bregi Radobojski in Krapina area (20).

Outside Croatia

At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Switzerland (2) and the United States (1).
Family name Kiseljak (including: Kiselyak , Kiseljack ) is present in 12 countries on two continents. "Kiseljack " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ernest Kiseljak, Ranko Kiseljak, Anica Kiseljak, Vlado Kiseljak, Boris Kiseljak, Željko Kiseljak, Marija Kiseljak, Franjo Kiseljak, Gordan Kiseljak, Dražen Kiseljak, Katarina Kiseljak, Ivan Kiseljak, Zlatko Kiseljak, Kristian Kiseljak, Mladen Kiseljak, Josipa Kiseljak, Vjenceslav Kiseljak, Verica Kiseljak, Nenad Kiseljak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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