Surname Ćirak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Ćirak families are Croats (from Zadar area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar area and in Zadar.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Ćirak live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located and threee other Croatian places, mostly in Posedarje in Zadar area (15), Makarska (<10), Zagreb (<5), Biograd na moru (<5), and in Rijeka (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Ćirak (including: Chirak , Chirac , Cirak , Chirakh , Cirac , Ciyrak , Czirak , Cyrak , Cirack and Chierak ) is present in 46 countries worldwide. The family name "Cirak " is used by some 1000 people in Turkey and about 60 in the United States. "Cirack " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Czirak " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Damir Ćirak, Mladen Ćirak, Vesna Ćirak, Ines Ćirak, Josip Ćirak, Ivona Ćirak, Tomislav Ćirak, Ivo Ćirak, Mirjana Ćirak, Milan Ćirak, Anka Ćirak, Ratko Ćirak, Zoran Ćirak, Marko Ćirak, Frane Ćirak, Slavko Ćirak, Šimun Ćirak, Ivan Ćirak, Nevenka Ćirak

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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