Muhar families are Croats and they are mostly from Gospic. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Gospic. In Mali Jadrč in Vrbovsko every third inhabitant had the family name Muhar.
Prevalence
About 250 people with faimily name Muhar live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 270 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 33 cities and 30 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Gospic (25), Osijek (20), Bjelovar (15), and in Mali Jadrc (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.