Surname Švetak in modern Croatia

Švetak families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ivanec area and in Varazdin.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Švetak live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties and 11 other places, mostly in Donja Voca (40) and Rijeka Vocanska (10) in Ivanec area, Zagreb (10), Vinica Breg in Ivanec area (<10), and in Ivanec (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: France (3), the United States (1), and to Austria (1).
Family name Švetak (including: Svetak , Svetac , Sweetak , Svetach , Shvetak and Swetak ) is present in 8 countries on four continents. "Swetak " is used by few people in the United States. "Sweetak " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Danijel Švetak, Vlado Švetak, Kristian Švetak, Sanja Švetak, Slavko Švetak, Drago Švetak, Damir Švetak, Ivan Švetak, Lidija Švetak, Vesna Švetak, Jelenko Švetak, Stanislav Švetak, Zlatko Švetak, Irena Švetak, Anita Švetak, Marina Švetak, Štefanija Švetak, Krunoslav Švetak, Božica Švetak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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