In Croatia, Pogačar families are Croats by relative majority (from Karlovac ), less frequently Slovenes (from Split ), and rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Middle Bosnia (Travnik area).
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Pogačar live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only five naselja i to in Zagreb (<5), Split (<5), Karlovac (<5), Cavle in Rijeka area (<5), and in Donji Zagon (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.