Surname Vrtarić in modern Croatia

Vrtarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Mursko Sredisce area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Djakovo.

Prevalence

About 450 people with faimily name Vrtarić live in Croatia today, in 190 households. There were 500 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 24 cities and 54 other places, mostly in Piskorevci (50), Zagreb (45), Cakovec (40), Djakovo (30), and in Osijek (25).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Germany (4) and the United States (1).
Family name Vrtarić is present in 8 countries on three continents. The family name "Vrtaric " is used by small number of people in Australia , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Austria.

Characteristic first names

Darko Vrtarić, Anica Vrtarić, Ivan Vrtarić, Dragutin Vrtarić, Biserka Vrtarić, Spomenka Vrtarić, Dario Vrtarić, Sandra Vrtarić, Goran Vrtarić, Dalibor Vrtarić, Milenko Vrtarić, Slavica Vrtarić, Siniša Vrtarić, Zlatica Vrtarić, Velimir Vrtarić, Maja Vrtarić, Ivica Vrtarić, Jerko Vrtarić, Josip Vrtarić

Mentions in sources

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

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