Surname Mačak in modern Croatia

Mačak families are podjednako Croats (the family name originates from Hrvatska Kostajnica area ) and Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Grubisno Polje and Zagreb. In Mala Jasenovača in Grubisno Polje every third inhabitant had the family name Mačak.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Mačak live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Ostrovica in Benkovac area (20), Zagreb (10), Djakovo (<10), Grubisno Polje (<10), and in Bobovac in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Mačak (including: Macak , Machak , Maciak , Maczak , Machnak , Macheak , Matschak , Macczak , Machack and Macack ) is present in 54 countries worldwide. The family name "Macak " is used by some 4000 people in Slovakia , about 3000 in Czech Republic , and some 1000 people in the United States. "Machak " is used by some 500 people in Sudan , about 500 in the United States , and small number of people in Ukraine. "Macack " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Mačak, Mirko Mačak, Jasenka Mačak, Rade Mačak, Dragiša Mačak, Milan Mačak, Dalibor Mačak, Radmila Mačak, Ljiljana Mačak, Manuela Mačak, Stanislava Mačak, Iva Mačak, Karlo Mačak, Katica Mačak, Jadranka Mačak, Marija Mačak, Renata Mačak, Danijela Mačak, Siniša Mačak

Mentions in sources

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

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