Križ families are Croats and they are mostly from Cabar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cabar and Zagreb. In Gornji Žagari in Cabar every sixth inhabitant had the family name Križ.
Prevalence
About 230 people with faimily name Križ live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Rijeka (25), Sirac in Daruvar area (25), Prezid (15), and in Mali Gorenec in Lepoglava area (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.