Surname Gašpar in modern Croatia

Gašpar families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Vrgorac , rarely Hungarians (Osijek). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrgorac and in Bosanian Posavina (Derventa area). In Umčani in Vrgorac nearly every inhabitant had the family name Gašpar.

Prevalence

About 1500 people with faimily name Gašpar live in Croatia today, in 580 households. There were 960 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 68 cities and 106 other places, mostly in Zagreb (310), Umcani (135), Split (80), Sinj (55), and in Ploce (40).

Outside Croatia

At least 17 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (7), Austria (3), Australia (2), Canada (2), the United States (2), and to the Netherlands (1).
Family name Gašpar (including: Gaspar , Gashpar , Gáspár and Gasphar ) is present in 124 countries worldwide. "Gasphar " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Jurica Gašpar, Luka Gašpar, Anđelko Gašpar, Angelina Gašpar, Vladimir Gašpar, Blago Gašpar, Živko Gašpar, Mirela Gašpar, Tomislav Gašpar, Marko Gašpar, Ante Gašpar, Zvonko Gašpar, Ljiljana Gašpar, Paško Gašpar, Jadran Gašpar, Ratko Gašpar, Željko Gašpar, Siniša Gašpar, Davor Gašpar

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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