In Croatia, Čisar families are generally Croats (from Mursko Sredisce area ), very rarely Bosniaks (from Koprivnica ), and . In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cakovec.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Čisar live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and threee other places, mostly in Koprivnica (<10), Beli Manastir (<10), Vratisinec in Mursko Sredisce area (<5), Zadar (<5), and in Knezevo in Beli Manastir area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.