In Croatia, Scrignar families are predominantly Italians (from Buje area ), rarely Croats (from Umag ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Buje area and in Buje.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Scrignar live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Umag (<5), Novigrad (<5), and in Babici (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Scrignar is present in 6 countries on four continents.
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.