Smojver families are Croats mostly sa Paga. According to some sources they originate even from Izraela. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Pag area. In Cesarica in Pag area every third inhabitant had the family name Smojver.
Prevalence
About 450 people with faimily name Smojver live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 35 cities and 44 other places, mostly in Rijeka (115), Zagreb (50), Zadar (30), Karlobag in Pag area (20), and in Crikvenica (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1691 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.