Surname Vezmar in modern Croatia

Vezmar families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Slunj area , whereas often Croats (Ogulin and Plasko area). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pakrac and in Slunj area. In Latin in Slunj area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Vezmar.

Prevalence

About 220 people with faimily name Vezmar live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 330 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Vukovar (25), Rijeka (15), Bjelovar (15), and in Garcin in Slavonski Brod area (15).

Outside Croatia

At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: France (3), Austria (2), Canada (1), the United Kingdom (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Vezmar is present in 8 countries on three continents. The family name "Vezmar " is used by some 80 people in the United States , small number in France , and small number of people in Canada. "Wezmar " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vesna Vezmar, Milan Vezmar, Dražen Vezmar, Klaudio Vezmar, Davor Vezmar, Đuro Vezmar, Željko Vezmar, Renata Vezmar, Nenad Vezmar, Veljko Vezmar, Ljiljana Vezmar, Mario Vezmar, Živko Vezmar, Darko Vezmar, Nikolina Vezmar, Goran Vezmar, Sanja Vezmar, Sandra Vezmar, Draško Vezmar

Mentions in sources

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

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