Surname Kamenar in modern Croatia

Kamenar families are Croats and they are mostly from Rijeka area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 300 people with faimily name Kamenar live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 320 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 47 other places, mostly in Rijeka (40), Zagreb (35), Dalj in Vinkovci area (25), Selnica in Zlatar area (15), and in Varazdin (15).

Outside Croatia

At least 12 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (5), Australia (4), the United States (1), France (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Kamenar (including: Kamenár , Khamenar and Camenar ) is present in 15 countries worldwide. The family name "Kamenar " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 200 in Slovakia , and some 200 people in Czech Republic.

Characteristic first names

Ratko Kamenar, Mario Kamenar, Boris Kamenar, Ingo Kamenar, Biserka Kamenar, Zdravko Kamenar, Jasna Kamenar, Dejan Kamenar, Livio Kamenar, Anastazija Kamenar, Milan Kamenar, Nikola Kamenar, Ružica Kamenar, Savo Kamenar, Stanislav Kamenar, Mladen Kamenar, Ane Kamenar, Vera Kamenar, Goran Kamenar

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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