Surname Mažar in modern Croatia

Mažar families are Croats and they are mostly from Obrovac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vukovar and Zagreb. In Prijeboj in Otocac area every second inhabitant had the family name Mažar.

Prevalence

About 490 people with faimily name Mažar live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 43 cities and 44 other places, mostly in Zagreb (125), Vukovar (85), Osijek (20), Slavonski Brod (20), and in Zapresic (20).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (3), Germany (2), and to Australia (1).
Family name Mažar (including: Mazhar , Mazar , Mahzar , Mazzar and Mazarr ) is present in 78 countries worldwide. "Mazarr " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Mažar, Mirabel Mažar, Zlatko Mažar, Marijan Mažar, Srdjan Mažar, Ivan Mažar, Ladislav Mažar, Marina Mažar, Tomislav Mažar, Valent Mažar, Vinko Mažar, Alen Mažar, Marko Mažar, Mile Mažar, Aljoša Mažar, Tomislava Mažar, Kristina Mažar, Lidija Mažar, Merita Mažar

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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