Surname Žegarac in modern Croatia

Žegarac families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Kastel Sucurac , but often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Otocac. In Glavace in Otocac every fourth inhabitant had the family name Žegarac.

Prevalence

About 270 people with faimily name Žegarac live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 550 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 32 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Kastel Sucurac (45), Zagreb (45), Split (20), Osijek (15), and in Glavace (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 14 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (5), Germany (3), the United Kingdom (2), Canada (2), Switzerland (1), and to Austria (1).
Family name Žegarac is present in two countries on two continents. The family name "Zegarac " is used by some 200 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vladimir Žegarac, Damir Žegarac, Tajana Žegarac, Sandra Žegarac, Darko Žegarac, Norman Žegarac, Marko Žegarac, Frane Žegarac, Igor Žegarac, Marija Žegarac, Borislav Žegarac, Milan Žegarac, Robert Žegarac, Dalibor Žegarac, Vojo Žegarac, Željko Žegarac, Martina Žegarac, Dejan Žegarac, Vesna Žegarac

Mentions in sources

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

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