Surname Rumac in modern Croatia

Rumac families are Croats and they are mostly from Buzet area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Opatija. In Brest Pod Učkom in Buzet area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Rumac.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Rumac live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are only located in in 11 Croatian cities and 18 other places, mostly in Rijeka (15), Pula (15), Opatija (10), Poljane (<10), and in Zagreb (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (3) and Canada (1).
Family name Rumac (including: Rumatz , Rumazza and Rumaz ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. The family name "Rumac " is used by small number of people in Australia , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Italy. "Rumaz " is used by few people in the United States. "Rumatz " is used by small number of people in Chile and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Jože Rumac, Ira Rumac, Vitomir Rumac, Jasenka Rumac, Sonja Rumac, Samir Rumac, Senka Rumac, Iva Rumac, Mirko Rumac, Lili Rumac, Ada Rumac, Radovan Rumac, Đurđica Rumac, Vojko Rumac, Maksim Rumac, Ana Rumac, Aljoša Rumac, Mario Rumac, Bogomil Rumac

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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