Surname Putar in modern Croatia

Putar families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Ivanec.

Prevalence

About 200 people with faimily name Putar live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 20 other places, mostly in Ivanec (35), Zagreb (25), Mihovljan in Krapina area (25), Osijek (15), and in Kutina (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Putar (including: Puttar , Puthavar , Puthaar , Puthar , Puthevar , Puthawar , Puthakar and Pudtar ) is present in 15 countries on four continents. "Puttar " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Željko Putar, Darko Putar, Martina Putar, Mladen Putar, Slavko Putar, Zdenka Putar, Ivica Putar, Milica Putar, Neven Putar, Boris Putar, Zvonimir Putar, Bernardo Putar, Robert Putar, Jasna Putar, Marjan Putar, Alen Putar, Zdravko Putar, Krunoslav Putar, Tanja Putar

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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