Surname Cesar in modern Croatia

Cesar families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. According to some sources they are from Novi Marof area (Jelenscak), rarely Slovenes. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin. In Obedišće Ježevsko in Dugo Selo area every second inhabitant had the family name Cesar.

Prevalence

About 580 people with faimily name Cesar live in Croatia today, in 250 households. There were 680 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 30 cities and 63 other places, mostly in Zagreb (185), Varazdin (30), Dugo Selo (30), and in Sveti Ilija (30) and Beletinec (20) in Varazdin area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Cesar (including: César , Cessar , Chesar , Chessar , Ceesar , Cäsar , Zessar , Zesar and Cheesar ) is present in 122 countries worldwide. "Cessar " is used by some 200 people in Syria , about 100 in Brazil , and some 80 people in the United States. "Zessar " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Chesar " is used by some 60 people in the United States , small number in Fiji , and small number in Indonesia.

Characteristic first names

Vera Cesar, Darko Cesar, Sanja Cesar, Silvije Cesar, Danijel Cesar, Hrvoje Cesar, Marijana Cesar, Ivan Cesar, Daniel Cesar, Benjanin Cesar, Nataša Cesar, Josip Cesar, Marija Cesar, Nives Cesar, Zoran Cesar, Katarina Cesar, Stjepan Cesar, Božena Cesar, Dobroslav Cesar

Mentions in sources

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

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