Surname Lisak in modern Croatia

Lisak families are Croats and they are mostly from Donja Stubica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Donja Stubica area and in Zagreb. In places Šagudovec and Sveti Matej in Donja Stubica area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Lisak.

Prevalence

About 420 people with faimily name Lisak live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Zagreb (100), Sagudovec in Donja Stubica area (60), Sesvete (35), Donja Stubica (30), and in Gornja Stubica in Donja Stubica area (20).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), Switzerland (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Lisak (including: Lisac , Lissak , Lishak , Liszak , Lissack , Lisack , Lisachuk , Lisachok and Liesack ) is present in 54 countries worldwide. The family name "Lisak " is used by some 9000 people in Ukraine , about 3000 in Poland , and some 2000 people in the United States. "Lisack " is used by some 100 people in the United States and small number in France. "Lissak " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 100 in Israel , and some 100 people in France.

Characteristic first names

Lidija Lisak, Marijana Lisak, Vladimir Lisak, Ankica Lisak, Siniša Lisak, Željko Lisak, Hrvoje Lisak, Ivan Lisak, Katarina Lisak, Miljenko Lisak, Denis Lisak, Krešimir Lisak, Davor Lisak, Zdenko Lisak, Ivanka Lisak, Robert Lisak, Božena Lisak, Dražen Lisak, Kristijan Lisak

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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