Surname Čančar in modern Croatia

Čančar families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Krajina , barely Serbs and Bosniaks. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosnian Krajina (Teslic area) and in Doboj, Bosnia (Doboj area).

Prevalence

About 550 people with faimily name Čančar live in Croatia today, in 210 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 44 cities and 79 other places, mostly in Zagreb (100), Lekenik in Petrinja area (20), Petrinja (15), Rijeka (15), and in Sesvete (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čančar (including: Cancar , Chanchar ) is present in 22 countries worldwide. The family name "Cancar " is used by some 400 people in Venezuela , about 100 in the United States , and some 80 people in Sweden.

Characteristic first names

Miljenko Čančar, Dijana Čančar, Željka Čančar, Vlado Čančar, Ilija Čančar, Ibro Čančar, Josip Čančar, Pejo Čančar, Kristina Čančar, Tatjana Čančar, Hrvoje Čančar, Franjo Čančar, Tomislav Čančar, Andrija Čančar, Ivo Čančar, Marijan Čančar, Kata Čančar, Mateja Čančar, Mladen Čančar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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