Surname Čihor in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Čihor families are Croats (from Petrinja area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sisak and in Petrinja area.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Čihor live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Letovanic in Petrinja area (<10), Sisak (<10), Petrinja (<10), Zagreb (<5), and in Premantura in Pula area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čihor (including: Cihor , Cichor and Chithoor ) is present in five countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Ante Čihor, Marija Čihor, Draženka Čihor, Denis Čihor, Stjepan Čihor, Davor Čihor, Dražen Čihor, Ksenija Čihor, Mladen Čihor, Slađana Čihor, Tomislav Čihor, Ivan Čihor, Josip Čihor, Agata Čihor, Jelka Čihor, Ljubica Čihor, Katarina Čihor, Marica Čihor, Štefica Čihor

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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