In Croatia, Prahir families are Croats (from Velika Gorica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Jastrebarsko area. In Desno Sredičko in Jastrebarsko area every fourtieth inhabitant had the family name Prahir.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Prahir live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Velika Gorica (20) and Zagreb (<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.