Surname Čmelar in modern Croatia

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

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Čmelar live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and threee other places, mostly in Pozega (<10), Radovanci in Pozega area (<10), Vukovar (<5), Zagreb (<5), and in Sesvete (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Čmelar (including: Chmelar , Cmelar and Chmelár ) is present in 14 countries on four continents. "Chmelar " is used by some 1000 people in Czech Republic , about 200 in the United States , and some 70 people in Slovakia.

Characteristic first names

Tomislav Čmelar, Branko Čmelar, Boris Čmelar, Robert Čmelar, Jana Čmelar, Vladimir Čmelar, Ljerka Čmelar, Jasna Čmelar, Vlatko Čmelar, Vjekoslav Čmelar, Ivan Čmelar, Snježana Čmelar, Viktor Čmelar, Sanja Čmelar, Erik Čmelar, Aleksandar Čmelar, Mirjana Čmelar, Dubravka Čmelar, Dragutin Čmelar

Mentions in sources

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

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