Surname Opat in modern Croatia

Opat families are Croats and they are mostly from Orahovica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and Orahovica. In Vukoder in Karlovac every third inhabitant had the family name Opat.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Opat live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Karlovac (15), Vukoder (15), Nova Josava (10), Zagreb (<10), and in Ladislav in Garesnica area (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (6), the United States (2), and to Germany (1).
Family name Opat (including: Opatha , Oppat , Oppatt , Opatt and Oppath ) is present in 26 countries worldwide. The family name "Opat " is used by some 600 people in Indonesia , about 300 in the United States , and some 200 people in Czech Republic. "Oppat " is used by some 60 people in the United States and small number in Germany. "Opatt " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ljubica Opat, Ivana Opat, Darko Opat, Franjo Opat, Dragutin Opat, Vinko Opat, Marija Opat, Dalibor Opat, Ana Opat, Ivan Opat, Zlatko Opat, Viktorija Opat, Danijela Opat, Zvonko Opat, Ružica Opat, Sanja Opat, Zdravko Opat, Tatiana Opat, Igor Opat

Mentions in sources

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

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