In Croatia, Kist families are Croats (from Osijek area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Kist live in Croatia today, in two households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in two Croatian counties, two cities and another small place , mostly in Cepin in Osijek area (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Osijek (<5).
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.