Hribar families are Croats and they are mostly from Zapresic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Samobor. In Prigorje Brdovečko in Zapresic area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Hribar.
Prevalence
About 260 people with faimily name Hribar live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 340 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 19 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Prigorje Brdovecko in Zapresic area (50), Zagreb (45), Bregana (30), Rijeka (10), and in Karlovac (<10).
Outside Croatia
At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (1), Australia (1), the United States (1), Canada (1), and to Sweden (1). Family name Hribar is present in 22 countries worldwide. The family name "Hribar " is used by some 1000 people in the United States , about 500 in Germany , and some 100 people in Canada.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over seventy times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.
