Surname Vidas in modern Croatia

Vidas families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Pag. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and on the Island of Rab.

Prevalence

About 810 people with faimily name Vidas live in Croatia today, in 350 households. There were 910 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 34 cities and 51 other places, mostly in Novalja on the Island of Pag (175), Rijeka (105), Supetarska Draga on the Island of Rab (90), Zagreb (75), and in Turanj in Biograd na moru area (55).

Outside Croatia

At least 24 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (16), Argentina (2), Canada (2), France (2), Germany (1), and to Australia (1).
Family name Vidas (including: Viedas , Widas , Viidas , Vidash , Widdas , Vidhas , Vydash , Vydas and Vidass ) is present in 46 countries worldwide. The family name "Vidas " is used by some 900 people in Brazil , about 700 in the United States , and some 500 people in the Philippines. "Vydas " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Widas " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 100 in Indonesia , and small number of people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Predrag Vidas, Mercedes Vidas, Barbara Vidas, Željko Vidas, Zdenko Vidas, Iva Vidas, Marin Vidas, Višnja Vidas, Mladen Vidas, Ivan Vidas, Dunja Vidas, Kristina Vidas, Josip Vidas, Joško Vidas, Krešimir Vidas, Robert Vidas, Anton Vidas, Mirko Vidas, Jadranka Vidas

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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