Surname Smrekar in modern Croatia

Smrekar families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina. According to some sources they are from Istria or Slovenia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Krapina and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 230 people with faimily name Smrekar live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Lepajci (20), Polje Krapinsko (10), Pula (<10), and in Grabe in Lepoglava area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Smrekar is present in 18 countries on four continents. The family name "Smrekar " is used by some 600 people in the United States , about 80 in Italy , and some 60 people in Canada. "Smerekar " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Branko Smrekar, Zdenka Smrekar, Marko Smrekar, Božidar Smrekar, Stjepan Smrekar, Željkica Smrekar, Miljenko Smrekar, Ivica Smrekar, Drago Smrekar, Mijo Smrekar, Nada Smrekar, Danijel Smrekar, Jadranka Smrekar, Nikolina Smrekar, Josip Smrekar, Lucija Smrekar, Valerija Smrekar, Sandra Smrekar, Ivo Smrekar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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