Surname Kočmar in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Kočmar families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area and in Koprivnica.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Kočmar live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Otocka in Djurdjevac area (15), Koprivnica (10), Gola in Djurdjevac area (<10), Jelsa on the Island of Hvar (<5), and in Novacka in Djurdjevac area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Kočmar (including: Kochmar , Kocsmár , Kocmar and Cocimar ) is present in 16 countries worldwide. The family name "Kocmar " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Kochmar " is used by some 700 people in Ukraine , about 100 in Russian Federation , and some 70 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Andreja Kočmar, Božidar Kočmar, Nenad Kočmar, Mario Kočmar, Danijela Kočmar, Marijan Kočmar, Katarina Kočmar, Vini Kočmar, Dražen Kočmar, Branka Kočmar, Darko Kočmar, Marko Kočmar, Ivica Kočmar, Valentina Kočmar, Agneza Kočmar, Franjo Kočmar, Dragutin Kočmar, Marica Kočmar, Slavica Kočmar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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