Rotar families are Croats the family name originates from Pozega area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pozega area and in Pazin.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Rotar live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 10 other places, mostly in Dragovci in Pozega area (25), Zagreb (25), Pula (15), Pleternica (15), and in Trviz (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.