Surname Čičak in modern Croatia

Čičak families are Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina. According to some sources from Kupres, Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Derventa area) and in Zagreb. In places Brezici and Tunjestala in Bosanian Posavina every fourth inhabitant had the family name Čičak.

Prevalence

About 1300 people with faimily name Čičak live in Croatia today, in 480 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 51 cities and 108 other places, mostly in Zagreb (415), Sesvete (170), Slavonski Brod (75), Osijek (35), and in Ivanic-Grad (35).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čičak (including: Cicak , Chichak , Cicák , Cicack , Cycak , Chiciak , Chichwak , Csicsak , Tschiniak and Cieciak ) is present in 25 countries worldwide. The family name "Cicak " is used by some 700 people in the United States , about 600 in Germany , and some 500 people in Czech Republic. "Cicack " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Chiciak " is used by some 50 people in Poland and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nikola Čičak, Marko Čičak, Mirko Čičak, Ivan Čičak, Igor Čičak, Klara Čičak, Silvije Čičak, Mato Čičak, Miranda Čičak, Helena Čičak, Živko Čičak, Danijel Čičak, Pejo Čičak, Predrag Čičak, Mirjana Čičak, Biserka Čičak, Damir Čičak, Vlasta Čičak, Hrvoje Čičak

Mentions in sources

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

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