Surname Kitak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kitak families are generally Croats (from Valpovo area ), very rarely Slovenes (from Krapina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Donji Miholjac and Pula.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Kitak live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Rijeka (<10), Pula (<10), Petrijevci in Valpovo area (<5), Miholjacki Porec (<5), and in Samobor (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kitak (including: Khitak , Chitak , Citak , Chitakh , Kitach , Kitakh , Kitachev , Kiitak and Kithak ) is present in 22 countries on four continents. "Khitak " is used by few people in the United States. "Citak " is used by some 2000 people in Turkey , about 200 in the United States , and some 200 people in Poland.

Characteristic first names

Linda Kitak, Nenad Kitak, Anton Kitak, Elizabeth Kitak, Dragan Kitak, Franko Kitak, Marko Kitak, Dragutin Kitak, Marija Kitak, Andrea Kitak, Nikola Kitak, Jadranka Kitak, Đuro Kitak, Franc Kitak, Irena Kitak, Matea Kitak, Deana Kitak, Ana Kitak, Alojz Kitak

Mentions in sources

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

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