In Croatia, Alfirev families are Croats (from Vodice ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik and Vodice.
Prevalence
About 70 people with faimily name Alfirev live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Vodice (45), Zagreb (25), and in Sibenik (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1936 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.