Surname Zidarić in modern Croatia

Zidarić families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Novi Marof and in Novi Marof area. In Sudovec in Novi Marof every fifth inhabitant had the family name Zidarić.

Prevalence

About 410 people with faimily name Zidarić live in Croatia today, in 150 households. There were 450 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 25 cities and 32 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Krizevci (40), Sudovec (25), and in Presecno Visocko (20) and Vuksinec Rijecki (20) in Novi Marof area.

Outside Croatia

At least ten families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Argentina (5), Sweden (2), the United States (2), and to Canada (1).
Family name Zidarić (including: Zidaric , Zidarich ) is present in 15 countries on four continents. "Zidarich " is used by some 80 people in Argentina , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Italy.

Characteristic first names

Zoran Zidarić, Vinko Zidarić, Mirko Zidarić, Ivica Zidarić, Josip Zidarić, Andrija Zidarić, Ljubica Zidarić, Mira Zidarić, Krunoslav Zidarić, Edvard Zidarić, Ozren Zidarić, Vjenceslav Zidarić, Ivor Zidarić, Krešimir Zidarić, Katica Zidarić, Silvija Zidarić, Tihomir Zidarić, Davor Zidarić, Branko Zidarić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1614 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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