Surname Manestar in modern Croatia

Manestar families are Croats and they are mostly from Dramlja (Sv. Jelene) pokraj Crikvenice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Crikvenica. In Dramalj in Crikvenica every third inhabitant had the family name Manestar.

Prevalence

About 300 people with faimily name Manestar live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 160 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 90 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Dramalj (100), Crikvenica (50), Zagreb (40), Rijeka (35), and in Osijek (10).

Outside Croatia

At least 23 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (13), Argentina (5), Australia (3), Canada (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Manestar is present in 14 countries worldwide. The family name "Manestar " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 100 in Argentina , and some 80 people in Australia.

Characteristic first names

Darko Manestar, Miljenko Manestar, Koraljka Manestar, Dino Manestar, Berislav Manestar, Branimir Manestar, Vitomir Manestar, Vesna Manestar, Ivan Manestar, Andreja Manestar, Jurica Manestar, Kristina Manestar, Anton Manestar, Josip Manestar, Natali Manestar, Varvara Manestar, Željko Manestar, Marija Manestar, Dragan Manestar

Mentions in sources

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

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