Surname Pižeta in modern Croatia

Pižeta families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and in Ivanec area. In places Gornje Ladanje and Donje Ladanje in Ivanec area every fourtieth inhabitant had the family name Pižeta.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Pižeta live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 8 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Varazdin (15), and in Vinica (15), Marusevec (15) and Calinec (<10) in Ivanec area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Pižeta (including: Pizeta , Pizetta and Pizzetta ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. "Pizzetta " is used by some 200 people in France , about 60 in Italy , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivanka Pižeta, Marko Pižeta, Blaženka Pižeta, Ivan Pižeta, Davor Pižeta, Mirko Pižeta, Jasminka Pižeta, Vladimir Pižeta, Miroslav Pižeta, Nikolina Pižeta, Tihomir Pižeta, Vedran Pižeta, Marijan Pižeta, Josip Pižeta, Marcela Pižeta, Alenka Pižeta, Ljubica Pižeta, Vlatka Pižeta, Ivo Pižeta

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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