In Croatia, Žiha families are generally Croats (from Orahovica area ), very rarely Hungarians (from Backa, Vojvodina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Orahovica area and in Nasice.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Žiha live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number tripled. They are located in only five naselja i to in Fericanci in Orahovica area (15), Nasice (<10), Zagreb (<10), Osijek (<5), and in Tenja (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.