Surname Vidaček in modern Croatia

Vidaček families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Ivanec. In places Seljanec and Margečan in Ivanec every fifth inhabitant had the family name Vidaček.

Prevalence

About 360 people with faimily name Vidaček live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 210 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Seljanec (140), Varazdin (75), Zagreb (20), Osecka (10), and in Vinkovci (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vidaček is present in four countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Željko Vidaček, Miljenko Vidaček, Renata Vidaček, Sanja Vidaček, Mladen Vidaček, Đuro Vidaček, Ivan Vidaček, Denisa Vidaček, Tomislav Vidaček, Ivana Vidaček, Slavica Vidaček, Dražen Vidaček, Tamara Vidaček, Josip Vidaček, Božica Vidaček, Zlatko Vidaček, Draženka Vidaček, Dijana Vidaček, Vjekoslav Vidaček

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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