Surname Pećnjak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Pećnjak families are Croats (from Vrbovec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Dugo Selo.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Pećnjak live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and 7 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Dugo Selo (<5), Krizevci (<5), Cugovec in Vrbovec area (<5), and in Sesvete (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pećnjak (including: Pecnjak , Pechnyak and Pechenyak ) is present in five countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Davor Pećnjak, Dražen Pećnjak, Tanja Pećnjak, Franjo Pećnjak, Dragica Pećnjak, Gordan Pećnjak, Sunčica Pećnjak, Darko Pećnjak, Ivan Pećnjak, Branko Pećnjak, Krešimir Pećnjak, Martina Pećnjak, Branimir Pećnjak, Milka Pećnjak, Ivica Pećnjak, Renata Pećnjak, Josip Pećnjak, Rozika Pećnjak, Stjepan Pećnjak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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