Surname Lesjak in modern Croatia

Lesjak families are Croats and they are mostly from Cakovec. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 290 people with faimily name Lesjak live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 230 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 41 other places, mostly in Cakovec (95), Pribislavec (30), Zagreb (30), Mackovec (20), and in Ivanovec (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Lesjak (including: Lesiak , Lesyak , Lessiak , Lesjack , Lessiack , Lesiack and Lessjak ) is present in 29 countries worldwide. The family name "Lesjak " is used by some 200 people in Austria , about 200 in the United States , and some 70 people in Brazil. "Lesiak " is used by some 6000 people in Poland , about 700 in the United States , and some 200 people in Austria. "Lesjack " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Branka Lesjak, Silvijo Lesjak, Iva Lesjak, Kristijan Lesjak, Jadranka Lesjak, Nenad Lesjak, Igor Lesjak, Edi Lesjak, Siniša Lesjak, Vedran Lesjak, Vilijam Lesjak, Dijana Lesjak, Mladen Lesjak, Ivica Lesjak, Valentina Lesjak, Josip Lesjak, Ivan Lesjak, Dragutin Lesjak, Doroteja Lesjak

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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