Surname Bandur in modern Croatia

Bandur families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Ljubuski area) and in Bjelovar.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Bandur live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 90 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Makarska (25), Bjelovar (10), Split (<10), and in Metkovic (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bandur is present in 28 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Željko Bandur, Milan Bandur, Niko Bandur, Ivica Bandur, Dragan Bandur, Miroslav Bandur, Jasmina Bandur, Nikola Bandur, Siniša Bandur, Miodrag Bandur, Josip Bandur, Gordana Bandur, Ivan Bandur, Daria Bandur, Dragica Bandur, Matea Bandur, Zinaida Bandur, Jure Bandur, Branka Bandur

Mentions in sources

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

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