In Croatia, Kresaj families are Croats (from Vrbovec area ), barely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovec area and in Zagreb. In places Kraljev Vrh and Ledina in Vrbovec area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Kresaj.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Kresaj live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in two Croatian counties, threee cities and 8 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Vrbovec (10), in Kraljev Vrh (10) and Ledina (<10) in Vrbovec area, and in Vrbovecki Pavlovec (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Kresaj (including: Kresay , Cresay ) is present in four countries on two continents. "Cresay " is used by few people in the United States.
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.
