Surname Gašparac in modern Croatia

Gašparac families are Croats and they are mostly from Delnice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb. In Bela Vodica in Delnice every second inhabitant had the family name Gašparac.

Prevalence

About 500 people with faimily name Gašparac live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 630 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 31 cities and 44 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Delnice (65), Rijeka (45), Bulinac in Bjelovar area (20), and in Slavonski Brod (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 13 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (6), France (2), Sweden (2), the United States (2), and to the Netherlands (1).
Family name Gašparac (including: Gasparac , Gasparatz and Gasparach ) is present in four countries on two continents. The family name "Gasparac " is used by some 100 people in the United States. "Gasparatz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivo Gašparac, Donald Gašparac, Nevenka Gašparac, Darko Gašparac, Anita Gašparac, Miljenko Gašparac, Cveto Gašparac, Rahela Gašparac, Ivan Gašparac, Damir Gašparac, Luka Gašparac, Krešimir Gašparac, Marinko Gašparac, Branko Gašparac, Boris Gašparac, Josip Gašparac, Vesna Gašparac, Anton Gašparac, Mladen Gašparac

Mentions in sources

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

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