Surname Lisac in modern Croatia

Lisac families are Croats and they are mostly from Delnice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In places Gornji Turni and Radočaj Brodski in Delnice every third inhabitant had the family name Lisac.

Prevalence

About 420 people with faimily name Lisac live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 570 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 30 cities and 45 other places, mostly in Zagreb (105), Rijeka (60), Delnice (20), Karlovac (20), and in Vukmanic (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 25 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (15), Switzerland (3), Australia (2), Canada (2), Germany (2), and to France (1).
Family name Lisac (including: Lissac , Lysach , Lisach , Lisacchi , Lisatz , Lyszaz and Liesac ) is present in 28 countries worldwide. The family name "Lisac " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 100 in Germany , and some 90 people in Moldova. "Lisatz " is used by few people in the United States. "Lisacchi " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Italy , and small number of people in Argentina.

Characteristic first names

Srđan Lisac, Zvonimir Lisac, Majda Lisac, Darko Lisac, Josip Lisac, Željko Lisac, Josipa Lisac, Inga Lisac, Alen Lisac, Ema Lisac, Zoran Lisac, Milan Lisac, Sonjica Lisac, Krunoslava Lisac, Ankica Lisac, Janko Lisac, Krunoslav Lisac, Igor Lisac, Mirjana Lisac

Mentions in sources

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

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