Surname Pučar in modern Croatia

Pučar families are Croats and they are mostly from Jastrebarsko area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Jastrebarsko area. In Tržić in Jastrebarsko area every third inhabitant had the family name Pučar.

Prevalence

About 110 people with faimily name Pučar live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 50 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and 5 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), in Trzic (30) and Repisce (20) in Jastrebarsko area, Jastrebarsko (15), and in Beter in Jastrebarsko area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Pučar (including: Pucar , Puchar , Putschar , Puchnar , Pucihar and Puzzar ) is present in 20 countries worldwide. "Puchar " is used by some 70 people in Czech Republic , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Poland. "Putschar " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Neven Pučar, Mirjana Pučar, Ivan Pučar, Vinko Pučar, Ozren Pučar, Dražen Pučar, Ljubica Pučar, Juraj Pučar, Davor Pučar, Nenad Pučar, Krešimir Pučar, Ana Pučar, Franjo Pučar, Berislav Pučar, Damir Pučar, Ljiljana Pučar, Brankica Pučar, Vladimir Pučar, Mijo Pučar

Mentions in sources

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

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