Surname Turšćak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Turšćak families are Croats (from Djakovo area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ivanec area and in Djakovo. In Selci Križovljanski in Ivanec area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Turšćak.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Turšćak live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties and 7 other places, mostly in Stari Mikanovci (<10) and Mrzovic (<10) in Djakovo area, Varazdin (<5), Vinkovci (<5), and in Sracinec in Varazdin area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Turšćak (including: Turscak , Turschak ) is present in three countries on two continents. The family name "Turscak " is used by some 100 people in the United States. "Turschak " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Predrag Turšćak, Ivan Turšćak, Miro Turšćak, Nataša Turšćak, Stanko Turšćak, Goran Turšćak, Bojan Turšćak, Darko Turšćak, Mirica Turšćak, Snježana Turšćak, Stanislav Turšćak, Jela Turšćak, Antun Turšćak, Ivana Turšćak, Marija Turšćak, Ljubica Turšćak, Božica Turšćak, Mario Turšćak, Ana Turšćak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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