Surname Lisjak in modern Croatia

Lisjak families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area , barely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 630 people with faimily name Lisjak live in Croatia today, in 280 households. There were 550 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 69 other places, mostly in Zagreb (105), Cakovec (65), Donja Dubrava in Koprivnica area (55), and in Dekanovec (40) and Kotoriba (20) in Prelog area.

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Austria (2), Germany (1), France (1), Sweden (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Lisjak (including: Lisiak , Lysyak , Lisyak , Lisjack , Lissiak , Lyssyak and Lisiack ) is present in 31 countries worldwide. "Lisiak " is used by some 3000 people in Poland , about 200 in Germany , and some 200 people in the United States. "Lisjack " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Boris Lisjak, Ivan Lisjak, Zlatko Lisjak, Sean Lisjak, Dragutin Lisjak, Marijan Lisjak, Danijel Lisjak, Tomislav Lisjak, Miroslav Lisjak, Jadranka Lisjak, Štefica Lisjak, Zdravko Lisjak, Leo Lisjak, Darko Lisjak, Mladen Lisjak, Đuro Lisjak, Dražen Lisjak, Marija Lisjak, Tihomir Lisjak

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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