Surname Filar in modern Croatia

Filar families are Croats and they are mostly from Hrvatska Kostajnica area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak and in Hrvatska Kostajnica area. In Stubalj in Hrvatska Kostajnica area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Filar.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Filar live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Stubalj in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (30), Zagreb (25), Bobovac in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (10), Sisak (<10), and in Gusce (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Filar (including: Felaar , Fillar , Philar and Fellar ) is present in 25 countries worldwide. The family name "Filar " is used by some 2000 people in Poland , about 400 in the United States , and some 80 people in Czech Republic. "Philar " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Fillar " is used by some 200 people in the United States and small number in the Philippines.

Characteristic first names

Krešimir Filar, Dražen Filar, Željka Filar, Jelena Filar, Tomislav Filar, Adriana Filar, Stjepan Filar, Vlatka Filar, Danijel Filar, Boris Filar, Nada Filar, Kata Filar, Verica Filar, Melita Filar, Gordana Filar, Nikola Filar, Nikolina Filar, Ivan Filar, Tonka Filar

Mentions in sources

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

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