Surname Obad in modern Croatia

Obad families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdinske Toplice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdinske Toplice. In Donja Poljana in Varazdinske Toplice every sixth inhabitant had the family name Obad.

Prevalence

About 500 people with faimily name Obad live in Croatia today, in 200 households. There were 480 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 31 cities and 56 other places, mostly in Zagreb (90), Varazdinske Toplice (55), Dubrovnik (30), Sesvete (30), and in Metkovic (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 13 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: France (5), the United States (3), Germany (3), Austria (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Obad (including: Obbad , Hobad ) is present in 39 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Ante Obad, Marko Obad, Vlado Obad, Željko Obad, Damir Obad, Marija Obad, Jelena Obad, Stijepo Obad, Orlanda Obad, Lidija Obad, Milivoj Obad, Drago Obad, Svjetlana Obad, Dražen Obad, Lucija Obad, Antun Obad, Mario Obad, Dubravka Obad, Baldo Obad

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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