Surname Šepak in modern Croatia

Šepak families are Croats and they are mostly from Cazma. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cazma and Zagreb. In Dereza in Cazma every fifth inhabitant had the family name Šepak.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Šepak live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Dereza (20), Cazma (15), Bjelovar (<10), and in Donji Vukojevac in Petrinja area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šepak (including: Sepak , Schepak , Scheppach , Shepak , Shlepak , Sepach , Shepack , Schepach , Shchepak and Sepac ) is present in 22 countries worldwide. "Shepack " is used by some 50 people in the United States and small number in Mexico. "Scheppach " is used by some 300 people in Germany and about 60 in the United States. "Schepach " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Šepak, Mijo Šepak, Anđelka Šepak, Marica Šepak, Vesna Šepak, Tomo Šepak, Ivana Šepak, Ljiljana Šepak, Dalibor Šepak, Milena Šepak, Slobodan Šepak, Nenad Šepak, Lidija Šepak, Igor Šepak, Ankica Šepak, Denis Šepak, Mirko Šepak, Đuro Šepak, Ljubica Šepak

Mentions in sources

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

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