In Croatia, Šatara families are Croats (from Peljesac Peninsula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and on Peljesac Peninsula. In Ulog in Podrinje (Bosnia) every second inhabitant had the family name Šatara.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Šatara live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are only located in four Croatian cities and two other places, mostly in Split (10), Zagreb (<10), Osijek (<5), and in Mali Ston (<5) and Ston (<5) on the Peljesac peninsula.