Surname Melnjak.

  • Surname Melnjak in modern Croatia

    Melnjak families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and in Varazdin area. In Gojanec in Varazdin every seventh inhabitant had the family name Melnjak.

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  • Prevalence

    About 260 people with faimily name Melnjak live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
    They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 28 other places, mostly in Vidovec in Varazdin area (60), Varazdin (20), Gojanec (20), Zagreb (10), and in Papinec in Varazdin area (10).

  • Outside Croatia


    Family name Melnjak is present in 7 countries on three continents. "Melnyak " is used by few people in Russian Federation and few people in the United States.

  • Characteristic first names

    Predrag Melnjak, Božena Melnjak, Ivan Melnjak, Mario Melnjak, Srečko Melnjak, Stjepan Melnjak, Josip Melnjak, Tea Melnjak, Zdravko Melnjak, Daniel Melnjak, Darko Melnjak, Jasminka Melnjak, Tihomir Melnjak, Štefica Melnjak, Maja Melnjak, Nenad Melnjak, Zoran Melnjak, Zlatko Melnjak, Antun Melnjak

  • Last name Melnjak around the globe

    See the countries where surname Melnjak is common, frequency and prevalence at mondonomo.ai

  • Mentions in sources

    In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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