Surname Lazar in modern Croatia

Lazar families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec area , barely Hungarians (from Osijek area ) and Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and in Ivanec area. In places Natkrižovljan , Križanče and Lipovnik in Ivanec area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Lazar.

Prevalence

About 1100 people with faimily name Lazar live in Croatia today, in 430 households. There were 1000 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 46 cities and 122 other places, mostly in Varazdin (85), Zagreb (70), Vinica Breg in Ivanec area (50), Osijek (40), and in Lipovnik in Ivanec area (40).

Outside Croatia

Family name Lazar (including: Lazaar , Lazhar , Lazzar , Lázár , Lazarr , Lazár , Laazar and Llazar ) is present in 110 countries worldwide. The family name "Lazar " is used by some 300000 people in Romania , about 40000 in the United States , and some 20000 people in Germany. "Lazzar " is used by some 200 people in the United States , small number in Venezuela , and small number of people in Italy. "Lazarr " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Martin Lazar, Bojan Lazar, Krešimir Lazar, Viktor Lazar, Josip Lazar, Goran Lazar, Mladen Lazar, Tatjana Lazar, Marija Lazar, Željka Lazar, Alojz Lazar, Boris Lazar, Matej Lazar, Davor Lazar, Ljubica Lazar, Martina Lazar, Darko Lazar, Igor Lazar, Brankica Lazar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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