Surname Šafar in modern Croatia

Šafar families are Croats and they are mostly from Delnice area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Kalić in Delnice every third inhabitant had the family name Šafar.

Prevalence

About 490 people with faimily name Šafar live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 620 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 39 cities and 58 other places, mostly in Zagreb (85), Rijeka (55), Sirac in Daruvar area (25), Koprivnica (15), and in Delnice (15).

Outside Croatia

At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (5), France (2), and to the United States (1).
Family name Šafar (including: Safar , Saffar , Shafar , Saphar , Shaffar , Schafar , Shkafar , Shahfar , Shaphar and Szafar ) is present in 91 countries worldwide. "Shafar " is used by some 400 people in Ukraine , about 300 in Indonesia , and some 200 people in the United States. "Saphar " is used by some 60 people in France , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Morocco. "Shaphar " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dalibor Šafar, Maja Šafar, Krešimir Šafar, Goran Šafar, Josip Šafar, Željko Šafar, Ines Šafar, Davor Šafar, Željka Šafar, Zlatko Šafar, Branka Šafar, Robert Šafar, Dragan Šafar, Andrea Šafar, Mladen Šafar, Nenad Šafar, Sandro Šafar, Branko Šafar, Siniša Šafar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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