Surname Kanđera in modern Croatia

Kanđera families can be both Croats (the family name originates from Nasice ) and Slovaks (also from Nasice ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nasice and Nova Gradiska.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Kanđera live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Breznica Nasicka in Nasice area (25), Nasice (15), Jelisavac (10), Osijek (<10), and in Nova Gradiska (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kanđera (including: Kandera , Chandera , Candera , Kangjera , Kandjera , Khandera , Kandiera , Kangera , Kandhera and Kandyera ) is present in 31 countries worldwide. "Candera " is used by some 300 people in Indonesia and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Franjo Kanđera, Marko Kanđera, Dražen Kanđera, Igor Kanđera, Hinko Kanđera, Kata Kanđera, Sonja Kanđera, Ivica Kanđera, Vedran Kanđera, Robert Kanđera, Josipa Kanđera, Snježana Kanđera, Branko Kanđera, Mirko Kanđera, Damir Kanđera, Anita Kanđera, Andrija Kanđera, Liljana Kanđera, Anica Kanđera

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1938 in source Phone Book - Zagreb 1938.

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