Surname Sever in modern Croatia

Sever families are Croats and they are mostly from Ivanec. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin. In Rakitovec in Velika Gorica every fifth inhabitant had the family name Sever.

Prevalence

About 2200 people with faimily name Sever live in Croatia today, in 870 households. There were 2400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 52 cities and 224 other places, mostly in Zagreb (575), Rakitovec (95), Ivanec (95), Varazdin (70), and in Sesvete (55).

Outside Croatia

At least 37 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (23), Canada (3), Switzerland (3), Australia (2), Austria (2), the United States (2), France (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Sever (including: Seever , Sewer , Shever , Seewer , Szever , Shewer and Seveer ) is present in 70 countries worldwide. The family name "Sever " is used by some 90000 people in Turkey , about 8000 in Russian Federation , and some 5000 people in the United States. "Sewer " is used by some 400 people in the United States and small number in Indonesia. "Shever " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 90 in Ukraine , and some 60 people in Russian Federation.

Characteristic first names

Slavko Sever, Stanislav Sever, Vilko Sever, Mirjana Sever, Nina Sever, Branko Sever, Krešimir Sever, Krunoslav Sever, Zoran Sever, Gordan Sever, Marko Sever, Višnja Sever, Danijela Sever, Antun Sever, Stjepan Sever, Damir Sever, Ivo Sever, Mladen Sever, Vladimir Sever

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over sixty times, the first time 1769 in source 18th Century Census.

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