Surname Ptičar in modern Croatia

Ptičar families are Croats and they are mostly from Zabok area and according to some sources from Poznanovca. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Krapina.

Prevalence

About 450 people with faimily name Ptičar live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 430 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 48 other places, mostly in Zagreb (160), Kutina (30), Lepajci (30), Trnovec Desinicki in Pregrada area (30), and in Poznanovec in Lepoglava area (25).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), the United States (1), and to France (1).
Family name Ptičar (including: Pticar , Ptichar ) is present in 8 countries on three continents. The family name "Pticar " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Kuwait.

Characteristic first names

Mirjana Ptičar, Romana Ptičar, Vladimir Ptičar, Ivan Ptičar, Adela Ptičar, Branko Ptičar, Tanja Ptičar, Dragan Ptičar, Tomislav Ptičar, Dario Ptičar, Ivana Ptičar, Mladen Ptičar, Sonja Ptičar, Davorin Ptičar, Zorica Ptičar, Stjepan Ptičar, Robert Ptičar, Josip Ptičar, Ksenija Ptičar

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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