Surname Serdar in modern Croatia

Serdar families are predominantly Croats and they are mostly from Obrovac area , less frequently Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic and in Obrovac area.

Prevalence

About 490 people with faimily name Serdar live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 420 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 34 cities and 54 other places, mostly in Zagreb (160), Gospic (45), Split (25), Rijeka (25), and in Slavonski Brod (20).

Outside Croatia

At least 28 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (10), the United States (9), Austria (3), Canada (2), Germany (2), Norway (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Serdar is present in 41 countries worldwide. The family name "Serdar " is used by some 20000 people in Turkey , about 1000 in Turkmenistan , and some 400 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Hrvoje Serdar, Elizabeta Serdar, Nikola Serdar, Svjetlana Serdar, Dujo Serdar, Maja Serdar, Elvis Serdar, Anamarija Serdar, Dalibor Serdar, Josipa Serdar, Ivan Serdar, Snježana Serdar, Pavao Serdar, Gabriela Serdar, Josip Serdar, Draško Serdar, Eleonora Serdar, Jasmina Serdar, Branislava Serdar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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