Surname Ložar in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Ložar families are almost entirely Croats (from Kutina area ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Kutina area and in Kutina.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Ložar live in Croatia today, in 16 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, threee cities and four other places, mostly in Popovaca (10) and Gornja Jelenska (10) in Kutina area, Zagreb (<10), Buzdohanj in Rijeka area (<10), and in Rijeka (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Ložar is present in 19 countries worldwide. The family name "Lozar " is used by some 500 people in the United States , about 300 in Germany , and some 300 people in Spain.

Characteristic first names

Andrija Ložar, Branko Ložar, Tanja Ložar, Mirela Ložar, Mario Ložar, Manuela Ložar, Mira Ložar, Marijan Ložar, Petar Ložar, Vladimir Ložar, Ivan Ložar, Željko Ložar, Brigitta Ložar, Melita Ložar, Zrinka Ložar, Tomislav Ložar, Ivanka Ložar, Biserka Ložar, Branka Ložar

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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