Surname Rovišnjak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Rovišnjak families are Croats (from Pregrada ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Pregrada.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Rovišnjak live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Vinagora (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Zabok (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rovišnjak is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Vlatko Rovišnjak, Anđelko Rovišnjak, Dubravka Rovišnjak, Vatroslav Rovišnjak, Tomislav Rovišnjak, Milica Rovišnjak, Sunčica Rovišnjak, Marija Rovišnjak, Mario Rovišnjak, Darinka Rovišnjak, Ljudmila Rovišnjak, Ivan Rovišnjak, Marijan Rovišnjak, Danica Rovišnjak, Josip Rovišnjak, Vladimir Rovišnjak, Andrija Rovišnjak, Kata Rovišnjak, Marjan Rovišnjak

Mentions in sources

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

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