Surname Šignjar in modern Croatia

Šignjar families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar and Koprivnica.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Šignjar live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and 12 other places, mostly in Djurdjevac (25), Bjelovar (10), and in Novo Virje (10), Semovci (10) and Virje (<10) in Djurdjevac area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Šignjar is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Božidarka Šignjar, Ivica Šignjar, Višnja Šignjar, Mira Šignjar, Dražen Šignjar, Gordana Šignjar, Željko Šignjar, Jasna Šignjar, Marijana Šignjar, Katica Šignjar, Dubravko Šignjar, Mirko Šignjar, Ana Šignjar, Zvonko Šignjar, Snježana Šignjar, Tomislav Šignjar, Martin Šignjar, Ljubica Šignjar, Draženka Šignjar

Mentions in sources

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

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