Surname Eger in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Eger families are Croats (from Middle Bosnia ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Middle Bosnia (Sarajevo area) and in Osijek. In Donji Čevljanovići in Middle Bosnia nearly every inhabitant had the family name Eger.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Eger live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Osijek (<10), Biograd na moru (<5), Golubic (<5), Vukovar (<5), and in Visnjevac (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Eger (including: Egger , Heger , Heeger , Hegger , Höger , Häger , Egher , Héger and Hegher ) is present in 92 countries worldwide. The family name "Eger " is used by some 7000 people in Germany , about 4000 in Brazil , and some 3000 people in the United States. "Egger " is used by some 7000 people in Austria , about 6000 in Germany , and some 4000 people in the United States. "Egher " is used by small number of people in Colombia , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Vatroslav Eger, Vlasta Eger, Sunčica Eger, Aleksandar Eger, Magdalena Eger, Ilija Eger, Anastasija Eger, Zvonimir Eger, Višnja Eger, Jagoda Eger, Alenka Eger, Stanislav Eger, Davor Eger, Denis Eger, Philipp Eger, Ana Eger, Andreas Eger, Ivanka Eger, Ksenija Eger

Mentions in sources

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

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