Surname Rešetar in modern Croatia

Rešetar families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec area. According to some sources they are from Dubrave Samoborske. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Samobor and Zagreb. In Dubrava Samoborska in Samobor every third inhabitant had the family name Rešetar.

Prevalence

About 960 people with faimily name Rešetar live in Croatia today, in 390 households. There were 930 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 46 cities and 104 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Samobor (75), Osijek (45), Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (45), and in Cakovec (45).

Outside Croatia

Family name Rešetar (including: Resetar , Reshetar , Ressetar , Reschetar and Reszetar ) is present in 26 countries worldwide. The family name "Resetar " is used by some 1000 people in the United States , about 200 in Slovakia , and some 50 people in Switzerland. "Reshetar " is used by some 700 people in Ukraine , about 200 in the United States , and some 100 people in Russian Federation. "Reschetar " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Branka Rešetar, Dražen Rešetar, Marko Rešetar, Tomica Rešetar, Srečko Rešetar, Želimir Rešetar, Željko Rešetar, Zvonko Rešetar, Domagoj Rešetar, Sandra Rešetar, Ivan Rešetar, Konstantin Rešetar, Darko Rešetar, Mladen Rešetar, Mirjana Rešetar, Vladimir Rešetar, Luka Rešetar, Nedo Rešetar, Mario Rešetar

Mentions in sources

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

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