Surname Rajher in modern Croatia

Rajher families are Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Prelog area and in Cakovec.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Rajher live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Kotoriba in Prelog area (20), Cerna in Zupanja area (15), Zagreb (<10), Djakovo (<10), and in Zapresic (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rajher (including: Reiher , Reicher , Reither , Raicher , Rayher , Raiher , Raycher , Rajcher and Raither ) is present in 55 countries worldwide. The family name "Rajher " is used by small number of people in Canada and small number in the United States. "Rayher " is used by some 200 people in Germany , about 100 in the United States , and small number of people in Canada. "Raycher " is used by some 90 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Antun Rajher, Jerko Rajher, Stjepan Rajher, Nenad Rajher, Željko Rajher, Ljiljana Rajher, Robert Rajher, Senka Rajher, Milorad Rajher, Jasna Rajher, Zlatko Rajher, Stanislav Rajher, Đurđa Rajher, Anica Rajher, Dražen Rajher, Andrija Rajher, Vinko Rajher, Ksenija Rajher, Dragica Rajher

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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