Surname Svržnjak in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Svržnjak 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 7 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Koprivnica (20), Jezovec in Lepoglava area (15), Varazdin (10), and in Breznica Nasicka in Nasice area (<10).

Outside Croatia

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

Characteristic first names

Kristina Svržnjak, Ivan Svržnjak, Stjepan Svržnjak, Darko Svržnjak, Oskar Svržnjak, Igor Svržnjak, Zdravko Svržnjak, Miljenko Svržnjak, Željko Svržnjak, Mijo Svržnjak, Jasna Svržnjak, Livio Svržnjak, Gordana Svržnjak, Krešo Svržnjak, Josip Svržnjak, Andrija Svržnjak, Zlata Svržnjak, Mihalj Svržnjak, Zorica Svržnjak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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