Surname Pera in modern Croatia

Pera families are Croats and they are mostly from Kastel Sucurac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and Split.

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Pera live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and 7 other places, mostly in Kastel Stafilic (40), Zadar (35), Kastel Stari (10), Lukoran on the Island of Ugljan (10), and in Zagreb (10).

Outside Croatia

At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (1), the United States (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Pera (including: Peera , Perra , Phera , Perah , Perrah , Pherah , Peraa , Ppera and Peeraa ) is present in 83 countries worldwide. "Perra " is used by some 4000 people in Italy , about 700 in the United States , and some 400 people in France. "Perrah " is used by some 80 people in Papua New Guinea and small number in the United States. "Pherah " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Srđan Pera, Svjetlana Pera, Valter Pera, Goran Pera, Mirjana Pera, Tomislav Pera, Vesna Pera, Irena Pera, Milan Pera, Damir Pera, Mira Pera, Adriana Pera, Snježana Pera, Daniel Pera, Marijana Pera, Nevena Pera, Martin Pera, Petar Pera, Ivanka Pera

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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