Surname Zajc in modern Croatia

Zajc families are Croats and they are mostly from Pazin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ogulin and Pazin. In Škopljak in Pazin area every third inhabitant had the family name Zajc.

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Zajc live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Ogulin (25), Gracisce in Pazin area (10), Rijeka (<10), and in Pula (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Zajc (including: Zaiz , Zaitz , Zaic , Zaicz , Zayc , Zajtz , Zayz , Zajz and Zaytz ) is present in 47 countries worldwide. The family name "Zajc " is used by some 1000 people in Poland , about 200 in Germany , and some 200 people in the United States. "Zayc " is used by few people in the United States. "Zayz " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Zajc, Marica Zajc, Zlatko Zajc, Zora Zajc, Dorijan Zajc, Lojze Zajc, Ana Zajc, Elvira Zajc, Dolores Zajc, Sabina Zajc, Albert Zajc, Saša Zajc, Ljiljana Zajc, Goran Zajc, Anton Zajc, Dario Zajc, Darko Zajc, Dejan Zajc, Miodrag Zajc

Mentions in sources

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

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