Orak families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof area and in Varazdin. In Pavlin Kloštar in Bjelovar area every thirtieth inhabitant had the family name Orak.
Prevalence
About 170 people with faimily name Orak live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Krizevci (30), Donja Rijeka in Novi Marof area (30), Zagreb (20), Vukovec in Krizevci area (15), and in Varazdin (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.