Surname Kantar in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kantar families are mainly Serbs, less frequently Croats (from Koprivnica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Bosanski Novi area) and in Obrovac area.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Kantar live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Dobroselo in Obrovac area (10), Sisak (10), Slavonski Brod (<10), and in Split (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Germany (1) and the United States (1).
Family name Kantar (including: Kanthar , Ciantar , Chantar , Cantar and Khantar ) is present in 63 countries worldwide. The family name "Kantar " is used by some 20000 people in Turkey , about 1000 in Germany , and some 600 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Sandra Kantar, Željko Kantar, Nada Kantar, Mladen Kantar, Dragica Kantar, Jasenka Kantar, Maja Kantar, Slavko Kantar, Rajko Kantar, Marko Kantar, Goran Kantar, Zoran Kantar, Ljiljana Kantar, Elizabeta Kantar, Nataša Kantar, Tajana Kantar, Dražen Kantar, Matej Kantar, Igor Kantar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1930 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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