Surname Listar in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Listar families are Croats (from Ozalj area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and in Ozalj area. In Gornji Goli Vrh Lipnički in Ozalj area nearly every inhabitant had the family name Listar.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Listar live in Croatia today, in 14 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and 6 other places, mostly in Karlovac (<10), Zagreb (<10), Mali Erjavec (<10), Nova Mokosica (<5), and in Mokosica (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Listar is present in 20 countries worldwide. The family name "Listar " is used by some 80 people in Hungary , about 60 in the United States , and small number of people in Algeria.

Characteristic first names

Romana Listar, Andrijana Listar, Juro Listar, Marijo Listar, Davor Listar, Anita Listar, Ivana Listar, Mato Listar, Velimir Listar, Siniša Listar, Dražen Listar, Dragan Listar, Mirjana Listar, Boris Listar, Ljubica Listar, Nadica Listar, Željko Listar, Mare Listar, Damir Listar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1933 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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