Surname Levar in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 220 people with faimily name Levar live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (65), Velika Gorica (15), Rijeka (15), Bosnjaci in Zupanja area (10), and in Klostar Ivanic in Ivanic-Grad area (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Levar (including: Lewar , Levhar , Lehwar , Leewar and Leevar ) is present in 18 countries worldwide. The family name "Levar " is used by some 500 people in the United States , about 90 in Argentina , and about 90 in Brazil. "Levhar " is used by some 200 people in Israel and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Levar, Nenad Levar, Lidija Levar, Damir Levar, Dragica Levar, Nataša Levar, Sanja Levar, Marko Levar, Davor Levar, Renata Levar, Petar Levar, Hrvoje Levar, Nada Levar, Anka Levar, Maja Levar, Ivica Levar, Vladimir Levar, Anđelko Levar, Tihana Levar

Mentions in sources

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

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