Surname Tabak in modern Croatia

Tabak families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area , barely Bosniaks (from Podrinje, Bosnia). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj area and in Split. In Kamensko in Sinj area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Tabak.

Prevalence

About 420 people with faimily name Tabak live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 35 cities and 33 other places, mostly in Split (115), Zagreb (100), Kamensko in Sinj area (35), Gunja in Zupanja area (15), and in Podstrana in Solin area (10).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (3), Australia (3), and to Germany (1).
Family name Tabak (including: Tabbakh , Tabac , Tabakh , Tabachuk , Taback , Tabachok , Tabback , Tabbak and Thabak ) is present in 80 countries worldwide. The family name "Tabak " is used by some 30000 people in Turkey , about 3000 in Syria , and some 3000 people in the United States. "Taback " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 200 in South Africa , and small number of people in Israel. "Tabback " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ante Tabak, Stipe Tabak, Mladen Tabak, Kristijan Tabak, Ivica Tabak, Matko Tabak, Bože Tabak, Jasenka Tabak, Gordan Tabak, Hari Tabak, Luksanda Tabak, Sanja Tabak, Tina Tabak, Martina Tabak, Jozo Tabak, Tomislav Tabak, Stipan Tabak, Prošper Tabak, Spomenka Tabak

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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