Surname Bender in modern Croatia

Bender families are Croats and they are mostly from east Herzegovina (Popovo polje). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Dubrovnik and in East Herzegovina (Trebinje area). In places Mišljen , Velja Međa and Ljubinje in East Herzegovina every third inhabitant had the family name Bender.

Prevalence

About 230 people with faimily name Bender live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 23 other places, mostly in Dubrovnik (90), Mokosica (45), Zagreb (20), and in Cibaca (10) and Mlini (<10) in Dubrovnik area.

Outside Croatia

At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Argentina (1), the United States (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Bender is present in 97 countries worldwide. The family name "Bender " is used by some 40000 people in the United States , about 30000 in Germany , and some 10000 people in Brazil. "Bennder " is used by few people in Russian Federation and few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Milivoj Bender, Matej Bender, Ante Bender, Reinhard Bender, Zlatko Bender, Jelenko Bender, Davor Bender, Mladen Bender, Jela Bender, Vide Bender, Nika Bender, Željka Bender, Gabriela Bender, Snježana Bender, Robert Bender, Darko Bender, Mateo Bender, Bert Bender, Ane Bender

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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