Križanić families are Croats and they are mostly from Ludbreg area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin. In Mali Carevdar in Krizevci every fifth inhabitant had the family name Križanić.
Prevalence
About 740 people with faimily name Križanić live in Croatia today, in 300 households. There were 830 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 36 cities and 76 other places, mostly in Zagreb (120), Karlovac (80), Petrinja (30), Velika Gorica (30), and in Ludbreg (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1672 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.