Zdilar families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Imotsko , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotsko and Split. U Gradu Imotskom every hundredth inhabitant had the family name Zdilar.
Prevalence
About 240 people with faimily name Zdilar live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Glavina Donja (145), Zagreb (50), Imotski (35), Split (20), and in Osijek (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1742 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.