Repar families are Croats and they are mostly from Jastrebarsko. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Jastrebarsko. In Draga Svetojanska in Jastrebarsko every seventh inhabitant had the family name Repar.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Repar live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Gorica Svetojanska (15), Draga Svetojanska (10), Matenci (10), and in Jastrebarsko (<10).
Outside Croatia
At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (4), Canada (3), and to Australia (1). Family name Repar is present in 16 countries on three continents. The family name "Repar " is used by some 80 people in Brazil , about 80 in Argentina , and about 80 in the United States. "Reppar " is used by small number of people in the United States.
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.
