Surname Možar in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Možar families are Croats (from Lepoglava ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Lepoglava and Slavonski Brod.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Možar live in Croatia today, in 19 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and threee other places, mostly in Lepoglava (15), Zagreb (<10), Slavonski Brod (<10), Pula (<5), and in Ruscica in Slavonski Brod area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Možar (including: Mozar , Mozhar , Mozsár , Mozzar and Moozar ) is present in 31 countries worldwide. "Mozzar " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mato Možar, Darko Možar, Valentina Možar, Marinka Možar, Marko Možar, Stjepan Možar, Željko Možar, Mirko Možar, Sandrino Možar, Marija Možar, Danijel Možar, Darinka Možar, Aleksandra Možar, Vlatko Možar, Kata Možar, Vesna Možar, Melita Možar, Ervin Možar, Danijela Možar

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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