Surname Madjer in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Madjer live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Lasinja in Jastrebarsko area (<10), Lonjica (<10), Sisak (<5), and in Novigrad Podravski in Djurdjevac area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Madjer is present in 25 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Davorin Madjer, Stjepan Madjer, Biserka Madjer, Miljenko Madjer, Ivica Madjer, Mario Madjer, Nikola Madjer, Vesna Madjer, Marina Madjer, Miodrag Madjer, Ivana Madjer, Josip Madjer, Nadežda Madjer, Berislav Madjer, Ivan Madjer, Vlasta Madjer, Mladen Madjer, Marica Madjer, Milka Madjer

Mentions in sources

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

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