Surname Bera in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Bera families are Serbs by relative majority (from Bosnian Posavina ), equally Croats (also from Bosnian Posavina ), and barely Montenegrins (from Split ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanski Novi area) and in Pleternica. In Ahmetovci in Bosanian Posavina every fourth inhabitant had the family name Bera.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Bera live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 6 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Trapari (10), Okuje (<5), Bakar (<5), and in Drenje Scitarjevsko (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bera (including: Behera , Behra , Berra , Beera , Bhera , Beraa , Berah , Berha and Bbera ) is present in 113 countries worldwide. "Berha " is used by small number of people in Germany and small number in the United States. "Beera " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Kuwait , and small number of people in United Arab Emirates , small number of people in Australia. "Behera " is used by some 3000 people in Afghanistan , about 1000 in Poland , and some 1000 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Marko Bera, Sretko Bera, Ranka Bera, Vlasta Bera, Miroslav Bera, Drago Bera, Biljana Bera, Suzana Bera, Snježana Bera, Gojko Bera, Mira Bera, Savka Bera, Petar Bera, Marica Bera, Daniel Bera, Danijela Bera, Shanti Bera, Pero Bera, Ruža Bera

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1924 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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