Surname Plužarić in modern Croatia

Plužarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Belisce area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and in Belisce area. In Marijanci in Belisce area every thirtieth inhabitant had the family name Plužarić.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Plužarić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are only located in in 7 Croatian cities and 15 other places, mostly in Marijanci in Belisce area (45), Osijek (10), Podgajci Podravski (<10), Magadenovac in Donji Miholjac area (<10), and in Josipovac (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Plužarić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Jadranka Plužarić, Željko Plužarić, Ivana Plužarić, Milica Plužarić, Zvonimir Plužarić, Katarina Plužarić, Dragan Plužarić, Zlatko Plužarić, Saša Plužarić, Renato Plužarić, Robert Plužarić, Igor Plužarić, Slavko Plužarić, Zdravko Plužarić, Tomislav Plužarić, Zoran Plužarić, Anamarija Plužarić, Josip Plužarić, Ljubica Plužarić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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