In Croatia, Bednar families are predominantly Croats (from Novska area ), very rarely Czechs (also from Novska area ), and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Bednar live in Croatia today, in 8 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in four Croatian counties, four cities and two other places, mostly in Lipovljani in Novska area (<5), Karlovac (<5), Porec (<5), Osijek (<5), and in Krivaj in Novska area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1928 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.