Surname Šiktar in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Šiktar families are Croats (from Jastrebarsko ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Jastrebarsko and Zagreb. In Izimje in Jastrebarsko every seventh inhabitant had the family name Šiktar.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Šiktar live in Croatia today, in 13 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Izimje (25), Zagreb (<5), Draganic in Karlovac area (<5), Donji Desinec (<5), and in Donji Kraljevec in Prelog area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šiktar (including: Siktar , Shiktar and Shlikhtar ) is present in 8 countries on four continents. The family name "Siktar " is used by some 60 people in Turkey and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Božidar Šiktar, Vladimir Šiktar, Kristina Šiktar, Stanislav Šiktar, Stjepan Šiktar, Nedeljko Šiktar, Renata Šiktar, Tomislav Šiktar, Diana Šiktar, Krunoslav Šiktar, Mijo Šiktar, Dragica Šiktar, Branko Šiktar, Jasminka Šiktar, Marko Šiktar, Alojzija Šiktar, Ljubica Šiktar, Franjo Šiktar, Vjekoslava Šiktar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1927 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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