Surname Križanec in modern Croatia

Križanec families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Lepoglava.

Prevalence

About 550 people with faimily name Križanec live in Croatia today, in 230 households. There were 540 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 33 cities and 59 other places, mostly in Sracinec in Varazdin area (95), Zagreb (60), Donja Visnjica (60), Varazdin (50), and in Zlogonje (15).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (2), Germany (2), the United States (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Križanec is present in 8 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Vjekoslav Križanec, Andrija Križanec, Marko Križanec, Antonia Križanec, Goran Križanec, Ivan Križanec, Božidar Križanec, Ljerka Križanec, Karlo Križanec, Siniša Križanec, Jurica Križanec, Kristina Križanec, Romeo Križanec, Vlasta Križanec, Branko Križanec, Borislav Križanec, Renata Križanec, Blanka Križanec, Denis Križanec

Mentions in sources

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

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