Surname Carev in modern Croatia

Carev families are Croats and they are mostly from Kastel Sucurac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Kastel Sucurac.

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Carev live in Croatia today, in 70 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 5 other places, mostly in Kastel Gomilica (70), Jezera on the Island of Murter (20), Split (15), Zagreb (15), and in Kastel Kambelovac (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Carev (including: Carew , Zarev , Tzarev , Zarew , Chareev and Charev ) is present in 72 countries worldwide. "Carew " is used by some 8000 people in Sierra Leone , about 3000 in the United States , and some 1000 people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Zdravko Carev, Dominko Carev, Ivana Carev, Mladen Carev, Merica Carev, Danijel Carev, Tatjana Carev, Ivica Carev, Marko Carev, Toni Carev, Ante Carev, Marijana Carev, Marija Carev, Frane Carev, Roberta Carev, Željka Carev, Milan Carev, Lucija Carev, Karmen Carev

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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