Surname Rajtar in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Rajtar families are Croats (from Vrbovec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Vrbovec area.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Rajtar live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties and 7 other places, mostly in Gradecki Pavlovec in Vrbovec area (10), Zagreb (<10), Luka (<10), Medsave (<5), and in Dubravski Markovac in Vrbovec area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rajtar (including: Raitar , Raytar , Reithar , Reithaar , Rajtár and Rajthar ) is present in 17 countries on four continents. The family name "Rajtar " is used by some 1000 people in Poland , about 200 in the United States , and some 70 people in Czech Republic. "Raytar " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Krunoslav Rajtar, Ankica Rajtar, Danica Rajtar, Stjepan Rajtar, Tihomir Rajtar, Ivica Rajtar, Franjo Rajtar, Zvonko Rajtar, Ivan Rajtar, Gordana Rajtar, Igor Rajtar, Stanko Rajtar, Vladimir Rajtar, Stanislav Rajtar, Mato Rajtar, Veronika Rajtar, Miljenko Rajtar, Zlatko Rajtar, Lidija Rajtar

Mentions in sources

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

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