Surname Šušnjar in modern Croatia

Šušnjar families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Imotski area , often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotsko and in Imotski area. In Janja Gora in Slunj area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Šušnjar.

Prevalence

About 630 people with faimily name Šušnjar live in Croatia today, in 270 households. There were 620 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 38 cities and 56 other places, mostly in Zagreb (115), Rijeka (90), in Drum (75) and Krivodol (60) in Imotski area, and in Split (45).

Outside Croatia

At least 15 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Canada (5), the United States (4), Germany (2), Australia (1), Norway (1), Sweden (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Šušnjar (including: Susnjar , Susnyar and Susniar ) is present in 17 countries on four continents. The family name "Susnjar " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 100 in Canada , and some 70 people in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Ivana Šušnjar, Milan Šušnjar, Marijan Šušnjar, Pero Šušnjar, Marko Šušnjar, Jadranka Šušnjar, Ante Šušnjar, Antonijo Šušnjar, Tomislav Šušnjar, Ana Šušnjar, Veljko Šušnjar, Željko Šušnjar, Barbara Šušnjar, Augustin Šušnjar, Branka Šušnjar, Robert Šušnjar, Dragica Šušnjar, Josip Šušnjar, Katarina Šušnjar

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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