Surname Rabar in modern Croatia

Rabar families are Croats and they are mostly from Rovinj area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and in Rovinj area. In Ladići in Rovinj area every second inhabitant had the family name Rabar.

Prevalence

About 290 people with faimily name Rabar live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 300 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Pula (55), Gologorica in Pazin area (35), Rovinj (30), Rijeka (30), and in Ladici in Rovinj area (20).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rabar (including: Rahbar , Hrabar , Rabhar , Rahbhar and Rabbar ) is present in 44 countries worldwide. "Rahbar " is used by some 20000 people in Iran , about 600 in Pakistan , and some 600 people in the United States. "Rabbar " is used by few people in the United States. "Hrabar " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 200 in South Africa , and some 70 people in Australia.

Characteristic first names

Danijela Rabar, Ivo Rabar, Massimo Rabar, Branka Rabar, Zoran Rabar, Diego Rabar, Dejli Rabar, Morana Rabar, Živka Rabar, Damir Rabar, Slavko Rabar, Miroslav Rabar, Nadia Rabar, Tomislav Rabar, Goran Rabar, Eleonora Rabar, Elda Rabar, Saša Rabar, Vlasta Rabar

Mentions in sources

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

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