Surname Petrinjak in modern Croatia

Petrinjak 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 Varazdin and Zagreb. In Vrh Visočki in Novi Marof area every third inhabitant had the family name Petrinjak.

Prevalence

About 280 people with faimily name Petrinjak live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 34 other places, mostly in Ivanec (55), Zagreb (50), Sracinec in Varazdin area (25), Vrh Visocki in Novi Marof area (20), and in Gornja Voca in Ivanec area (15).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), the United States (1), and to Spain (1).
Family name Petrinjak (including: Petrinyak , Petrinjac and Petriniak ) is present in 14 countries on three continents. The family name "Petrinjak " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Austria. "Petriniak " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Tomislav Petrinjak, Darko Petrinjak, Mirta Petrinjak, Mladen Petrinjak, Dragica Petrinjak, Sonja Petrinjak, Ivan Petrinjak, Ljubica Petrinjak, Gordana Petrinjak, Ivica Petrinjak, Renata Petrinjak, Franjo Petrinjak, Nikolina Petrinjak, Irena Petrinjak, Martina Petrinjak, Željko Petrinjak, Snježana Petrinjak, Tanja Petrinjak, Marija Petrinjak

Mentions in sources

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

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