Surname Podnar in modern Croatia

Podnar families are Croats and they are mostly from Gospic area. According to some sources they are from Gorskog kotara. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic area and in Otocac. In Gornja Dobra in Delnice area every third inhabitant had the family name Podnar.

Prevalence

About 520 people with faimily name Podnar live in Croatia today, in 240 households. There were 580 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 35 cities and 62 other places, mostly in Zagreb (95), Rijeka (35), Kuterevo (30), Dolac in Pozega area (25), and in Sisak (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 15 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (7), Germany (5), Austria (1), the United States (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Podnar is present in 12 countries worldwide. The family name "Podnar " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 50 in Australia , and small number of people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Ivana Podnar, Ivan Podnar, Goranka Podnar, Olga Podnar, Dubravka Podnar, Anamarija Podnar, Milan Podnar, Nada Podnar, Alenko Podnar, Antun Podnar, Vlatko Podnar, Momir Podnar, Josip Podnar, Nikolina Podnar, Franjo Podnar, Zlatko Podnar, Ante Podnar, Sanjin Podnar, Ninoslava Podnar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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