Surname Kuzmac in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kuzmac families are Croats (from Petrinja area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak and Zagreb. In Lekenik in Petrinja area every nintieth inhabitant had the family name Kuzmac.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Kuzmac live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, two cities and two other places, mostly in Lekenik in Petrinja area (15), Zagreb (<5), Rijeka (<5), and in Sunja in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kuzmac is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Višnja Kuzmac, Željko Kuzmac, Ivana Kuzmac, Dragica Kuzmac, Goran Kuzmac, Ivan Kuzmac, Stjepan Kuzmac, Katica Kuzmac, Antonija Kuzmac, Đuro Kuzmac, Sania Kuzmac, Marija Kuzmac, Nikola Kuzmac, Blaženka Kuzmac, Josip Kuzmac, Franjo Kuzmac, Ljubica Kuzmac, Barica Kuzmac, Ana Kuzmac

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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