Surname Pajur in modern Croatia

Pajur families are Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina. In Vukovje Zelinsko in Sveti Ivan Zelina every third inhabitant had the family name Pajur.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Pajur live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties and 13 other places, mostly in Dvorisce (30) and Rakovec (10) in Sveti Ivan Zelina area, Vukovje Zelinsko (<10), Bukovec Zelinski (<10), and in Zagreb (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least one family with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States.
Family name Pajur (including: Payur , Pajjur and Payuer ) is present in 12 countries on four continents. "Payuer " is used by few people in the United States. "Pajjur " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Franjo Pajur, Željko Pajur, Davor Pajur, Marija Pajur, Jadranka Pajur, Slađana Pajur, Gabrijel Pajur, Gordana Pajur, Anđelko Pajur, Grozdana Pajur, Vedrana Pajur, Lidija Pajur, Damir Pajur, Eva Pajur, Đuro Pajur, Dražen Pajur, Božica Pajur, Kristina Pajur, Kristijan Pajur

Mentions in sources

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.

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