Surname Malnar in modern Croatia

Malnar families are Croats and they are mostly from Cabar. According to some sources they are from village Kocijani (Brod Moravice). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cabar and Rijeka. In places Selo and Crni Lazi in Cabar every third inhabitant had the family name Malnar.

Prevalence

About 980 people with faimily name Malnar live in Croatia today, in 440 households. There were 1000 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 47 cities and 86 other places, mostly in Rijeka (170), Zagreb (120), Trsce (60), Gerovo (45), and in Prezid (40).

Outside Croatia

At least 28 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: France (16), Germany (5), the United States (3), Switzerland (2), Australia (1), and to Canada (1).
Family name Malnar is present in 20 countries worldwide. The family name "Malnar " is used by some 700 people in the United States , about 200 in France , and some 60 people in Germany. "Mallinar " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Malnar, Ivica Malnar, Ivan Malnar, Juraj Malnar, Ana Malnar, Marijan Malnar, Živko Malnar, Mario Malnar, Jasna Malnar, Josip Malnar, Vanja Malnar, Jasmina Malnar, Margareta Malnar, Petar Malnar, Vladimir Malnar, Mihaela Malnar, Jakov Malnar, Ivana Malnar, Zvonimir Malnar

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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