Surname Sedmak in modern Croatia

Sedmak families are Croats and they are mostly from Velika Gorica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Velika Gorica. In Lukavec in Velika Gorica every seventh inhabitant had the family name Sedmak.

Prevalence

About 320 people with faimily name Sedmak live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 390 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 32 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Donja Lomnica (35), Lukavec (25), Djurdjevac (20), and in Velika Gorica (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (5), Germany (2), the Netherlands (1), Switzerland (1), France (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Sedmak (including: Szedmak , Sedmack , Shedmak , Sedmák and Sedmach ) is present in 22 countries worldwide. The family name "Sedmak " is used by some 500 people in the United States , about 200 in Slovakia , and some 100 people in Italy. "Sedmack " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Martina Sedmak, Davorin Sedmak, Saša Sedmak, Zvonko Sedmak, Mladen Sedmak, Katica Sedmak, Zlatko Sedmak, Mario Sedmak, Stanko Sedmak, Velimir Sedmak, Mirjana Sedmak, Nikola Sedmak, Željko Sedmak, Gordana Sedmak, Ivana Sedmak, Danijel Sedmak, Andrija Sedmak, Dubravko Sedmak, Vera Sedmak

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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