In Croatia, Bitar families are Croats (from Novi Marof ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Bitar live in Croatia today, in four households only. They are located in three Croatian cities only: in Samobor (15), Novi Marof (<10), and in Varazdin (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.