In Croatia, Manjkas families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar and in Djurdjevac area.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Manjkas live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 0 percent. They are located and 5 other Croatian places, mostly in Bjelovar (25), Zagreb (<10), Virovitica (<10), Djurdjevac (<5), and in Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.