Surname Stanišak in modern Croatia

Stanišak families are Croats and they are mostly from Zapresic. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zapresic and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Stanišak live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), in Gornja Pusca (30) and Hrusevec Puscanski (15) in Zapresic area, Kupljenovo (10), and in Zapresic (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Stanišak is present in two countries.

Characteristic first names

Stjepan Stanišak, Mirjana Stanišak, Manolito Stanišak, Renato Stanišak, Željko Stanišak, Josip Stanišak, Krešimir Stanišak, Branko Stanišak, Damir Stanišak, Tomislav Stanišak, Dražen Stanišak, Miroslav Stanišak, Zdenkica Stanišak, Jasna Stanišak, Ivana Stanišak, Dejan Stanišak, Štefica Stanišak, Suzana Stanišak, Mirko Stanišak

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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