Surname Vidak in modern Croatia

Vidak families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Zadar area. According to some sources they are from Hungary, very rarely Serbs from Petrinja area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanska Gradiska area) and in Zagreb. In Bukovac in Bosanian Posavina every seventh inhabitant had the family name Vidak.

Prevalence

About 970 people with faimily name Vidak live in Croatia today, in 380 households. There were 720 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 41 cities and 112 other places, mostly in Zagreb (225), Donji Prolozac in Imotski area (40), Budinscina in Zlatar area (40), Rupalj in Zadar area (30), and in Rijeka (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), the United States (3), France (2), the United Kingdom (1), Australia (1), and to Mexico (1).
Family name Vidak (including: Wierdak , Vidács , Widak , Vidacs , Vidach , Wydak , Vidack and Widacha ) is present in 34 countries worldwide. The family name "Vidak " is used by some 1000 people in Hungary , about 400 in the United States , and some 300 people in Germany. "Vidack " is used by few people in the United States. "Vidacs " is used by some 50 people in the United States and small number in Hungary.

Characteristic first names

Nikola Vidak, Mirela Vidak, Diana Vidak, Luka Vidak, Renata Vidak, Alan Vidak, Mirko Vidak, Nikša Vidak, Damir Vidak, Mato Vidak, Ines Vidak, Elvis Vidak, Enerik Vidak, Marin Vidak, Zdravko Vidak, Valent Vidak, Darko Vidak, Zoran Vidak, Vlado Vidak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1749 in source 18th Century Census.

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