In Croatia, Nožar families are Croats (from Hrvatska Kostajnica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Hrvatska Kostajnica.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Nožar live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and four other places, mostly in Hrvatska Kostajnica (<10), Grabostani in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (<10), Zagreb (<5), Sisak (<5), and in Sunja in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Nožar is present in 21 countries worldwide.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.