Surname Cicvara in modern Croatia

Cicvara families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Pakrac , whereas often Croats (from Skradin ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pakrac and Zagreb. In Cicvare in Pakrac nearly every inhabitant had the family name Cicvara.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Cicvara live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Pakrac (<10), Velika Gorica (<10), Karlovac (<10), and in Zapresic (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (2), Germany (2), Austria (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Cicvara is present in 10 countries on two continents. The family name "Cicvara " is used by small number of people in Slovakia and small number in the United States. "Chicvara " is used by some 50 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nenad Cicvara, Zoran Cicvara, Marijana Cicvara, Dalibor Cicvara, Draženka Cicvara, Aleksandra Cicvara, Ljuban Cicvara, Borivoj Cicvara, Petar Cicvara, Milan Cicvara, Radovan Cicvara, Milutin Cicvara, Olga Cicvara, Zlatko Cicvara, Željko Cicvara, Dubravka Cicvara, Dragan Cicvara, Mario Cicvara, Anita Cicvara

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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