Surname Demetar in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Demetar families are Croats (from Virovitica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Virovitica area.

Prevalence

Only a few people with faimily name Demetar live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Zagreb (<5), Osijek (<5), Zmajevac in Beli Manastir area (<5), and in Severovci (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Demetar is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Brankica Demetar, Ivan Demetar, Marija Demetar, Terezija Demetar, Aleksandar Demetar, Ana Demetar, Anđelka Demetar, Darinka Demetar, Katarina Demetar, Katica Demetar, Marica Demetar, Đuro Demetar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1928 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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