Surname Paver in modern Croatia

Paver families are Croats and they are mostly from Delnice. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Rijeka. In Buzin in Delnice area every third inhabitant had the family name Paver.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Paver live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 130 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 18 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Rijeka (<10), Pula (<10), Virovitica (<10), and in Karlovac (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (3) and Sweden (1).
Family name Paver (including: Pawer , Paaver ) is present in 45 countries worldwide. The family name "Paver " is used by some 600 people in the United States , about 500 in the Philippines , and some 200 people in Great Britain.

Characteristic first names

Hrvoje Paver, Nataša Paver, Ružica Paver, Marijan Paver, Mirjana Paver, Boris Paver, Željko Paver, Isabella Paver, Martina Paver, Tea Paver, Ratimir Paver, Hana Paver, Gorana Paver, Ivica Paver, Željka Paver, Marijeta Paver, Nedeljka Paver, Štefica Paver, Livija Paver

Mentions in sources

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.

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