Surname Grabar in modern Croatia

Grabar families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area , rarely Italians. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Varazdin. In Vrbno in Lepoglava area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Grabar.

Prevalence

About 810 people with faimily name Grabar live in Croatia today, in 320 households. There were 820 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 37 cities and 94 other places, mostly in Cakovec (80), Zagreb (70), Vrbno in Lepoglava area (50), Rijeka (45), and in Varazdin (45).

Outside Croatia

At least 14 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (8), Switzerland (3), Sweden (2), and to Australia (1).
Family name Grabar (including: Gharabar , Grabhar ) is present in 29 countries worldwide. The family name "Grabar " is used by some 4000 people in Ukraine , about 2000 in Russian Federation , and some 400 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Tomislav Grabar, Rajka Grabar, Zlatko Grabar, Sanja Grabar, Goran Grabar, Slava Grabar, Narcis Grabar, Dragutin Grabar, Branko Grabar, Marina Grabar, Rudolf Grabar, Marijan Grabar, Željko Grabar, Jasminka Grabar, Ivan Grabar, Ljubica Grabar, Marin Grabar, Tihomir Grabar, Boris Grabar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1673 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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