Surname Čevra in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Čevra families are Croats (from Solin area ), barely Slovenes (from Zagreb ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and in Western Bosnia (Tomislavgrad area).

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Čevra live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and threee other places, mostly in Dugopolje in Solin area (40), Zagreb (15), Velika Gorica (10), Varazdin (<10), and in Split (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čevra (including: Cervera , Cevera , Chevra , Cevra , Chewra and Chevera ) is present in 58 countries worldwide. The family name "Cevra " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Chewra " is used by few people in the United States. "Cevera " is used by some 100 people in the United States , small number in El Salvador , and small number of people in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Davorka Čevra, Dubravko Čevra, Ante Čevra, Goran Čevra, Dražen Čevra, Lidija Čevra, Ljuban Čevra, Božidar Čevra, Ivan Čevra, Zoran Čevra, Gorana Čevra, Branko Čevra, Hrvoje Čevra, Miroslav Čevra, Ivna Čevra, Antun Čevra, Marija Čevra, Zvonko Čevra, Jozo Čevra

Mentions in sources

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

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