Surname Ribar in modern Croatia

Ribar families are Croats and they are mostly from Karlovac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and Zagreb. In Ribari in Karlovac every third inhabitant had the family name Ribar.

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Ribar live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 310 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Karlovac (45), Ribari (35), Zagreb (25), Lipovljani in Novska area (15), and in Jastrebarsko (10).

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: France (8), Australia (2), and to the United States (1).
Family name Ribar (including: Rybar , Hribar , Rybár , Ribár and Riebar ) is present in 41 countries worldwide. The family name "Ribar " is used by some 1000 people in the United States , about 300 in Turkey , and some 200 people in Hungary. "Riebar " is used by few people in the United States. "Rybar " is used by some 4000 people in Slovakia , about 2000 in Czech Republic , and some 500 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zvonko Ribar, Slavica Ribar, Laslo Ribar, Branko Ribar, Andrija Ribar, Marija Ribar, Damir Ribar, Gordana Ribar, Daliborka Ribar, Đurđica Ribar, Jadranka Ribar, Marina Ribar, Antonija Ribar, Etel Ribar, Ivona Ribar, Mirjana Ribar, Andrejas Ribar, Mara Ribar, Vesna Ribar

Mentions in sources

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

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