In Croatia, Gradišar families are Croats (from Sisak ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac. In Banska Selnica in Karlovac every fourtieth inhabitant had the family name Gradišar.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Gradišar live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 7 Croatian counties and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (15), Karlovac (<10), Sisak (<10), Rijeka (<5), and in Velika Gorica (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1932 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.