Surname Potočnjak in modern Croatia

Potočnjak families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. According to some sources they are from Senj and Karlobag. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cakovec. In Greda in Vrbovec every seventh inhabitant had the family name Potočnjak.

Prevalence

About 270 people with faimily name Potočnjak live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 290 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 33 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Rijeka (35), Zadar (15), Petrijanec in Varazdin area (15), and in Razanac in Nin area (15).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Canada (2), Sweden (2), the United States (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Potočnjak (including: Potochnyak , Potochniak , Potocnjak and Potocniak ) is present in 17 countries on four continents. The family name "Potocnjak " is used by small number of people in Chile , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Italy. "Potochniak " is used by some 80 people in the United States and small number in Ukraine.

Characteristic first names

Vlatka Potočnjak, Željko Potočnjak, Mario Potočnjak, Žarko Potočnjak, Dalibor Potočnjak, Ivan Potočnjak, Eleonora Potočnjak, Nevenka Potočnjak, Mirko Potočnjak, Branimir Potočnjak, Sabina Potočnjak, Ante Potočnjak, Vladimir Potočnjak, Darko Potočnjak, Snježana Potočnjak, Ivica Potočnjak, Vanja Potočnjak, Borko Potočnjak, Marina Potočnjak

Mentions in sources

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

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