Surname Car in modern Croatia

Car families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Crikvenica , barely Serbs. According to some sources the family name originates from Karlovac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Carevo Selo in Duga Resa area nearly every inhabitant had the family name Car.

Prevalence

About 2200 people with faimily name Car live in Croatia today, in 970 households. There were 2200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 64 cities and 172 other places, mostly in Zagreb (350), Crikvenica (290), Karlovac (135), Dramalj (80), and in Rijeka (75).

Outside Croatia

At least 70 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (23), Germany (15), Canada (10), Australia (9), Argentina (5), France (3), Switzerland (3), and to South Africa (2).
Family name Car (including: Zar , Carr , Chaar , Char , Caar , Charr , Charh , Tzar and Cahr ) is present in 169 countries worldwide. "Tzar " is used by small number of people in Australia and small number in the United States. "Carr " is used by some 100000 people in the United States , about 10000 in Great Britain , and some 9000 people in Australia. "Cahr " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Stjepan Car, Nikola Car, Željko Car, Milena Car, Marijan Car, Bojana Car, Siniša Car, Nenad Car, Andrija Car, Antun Car, Milivoj Car, Damir Car, Dolores Car, Antuanet Car, Vladimir Car, Vojislav Car, Branko Car, Zorica Car, Andrea Car

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over a hundred times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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