Štajduhar families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrbovsko area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac. In Razdrto in Vrbovsko area every second inhabitant had the family name Štajduhar.
Prevalence
About 470 people with faimily name Štajduhar live in Croatia today, in 200 households. There were 600 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 39 cities and 48 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Rijeka (35), Karlovac (30), Osijek (25), and in Gradiste in Zupanja area (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1736 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.