Surname Surjak in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Surjak live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Ivanec (25), Vidovec in Varazdin area (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Lancic (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Surjak (including: Suryak , Suriak and Shuryak ) is present in 14 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Željko Surjak, Vesna Surjak, Tibor Surjak, Boris Surjak, Božena Surjak, Mario Surjak, Višnja Surjak, Ivan Surjak, Mirjana Surjak, Zvonimir Surjak, Tomislav Surjak, Marina Surjak, Vedran Surjak, Marija Surjak, Branka Surjak, Josip Surjak, Stjepan Surjak, Danica Surjak, Draga Surjak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1942 in source Phone Directory of the Independent State of Croatia 1942.

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