Surname Vandekar in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Vandekar families are Croats (from Pregrada area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Slovenia.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Vandekar live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are only located in four Croatian cities and 5 other places, mostly in Samobor (10), Zagreb (10), in Rusnica (<10) and Hum na Sutli (<10) in Pregrada area, and in Petrova Gora in Zlatar area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Vandekar (including: Vandhekar , Vandecar , Wandhekar , Wandekar , Vandecarr and Vhandekar ) is present in 12 countries worldwide. The family name "Vandekar " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Vandecar " is used by some 500 people in the United States and small number in South Africa. "Vandecarr " is used by some 80 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nikola Vandekar, Mladenka Vandekar, Slavko Vandekar, Siniša Vandekar, Marija Vandekar, Milutin Vandekar, Tina Vandekar, Darko Vandekar, Mirna Vandekar, Juraj Vandekar, Josip Vandekar, Dragutin Vandekar, Zdenka Vandekar, Ivan Vandekar, Vlasta Vandekar, Zvonimir Vandekar, Mato Vandekar, Rozalija Vandekar, Božidar Vandekar

Mentions in sources

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

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