Strelar families are Croats and they are mostly from Sveti Ivan Zelina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Sveti Ivan Zelina. In Gornje Psarjevo in Sveti Ivan Zelina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Strelar.
Prevalence
About 90 people with faimily name Strelar live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, four cities and 10 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Gornje Psarjevo (25), Sesvete (10), Pakrac (<5), and in Cestica in Ivanec area (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Strelar is present in four countries on two continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1927 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.
