Surname Škafar in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Škafar families are Croats (from Slatina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slatina and Virovitica.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Škafar live in Croatia today, in 14 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in four Croatian counties, threee cities and 7 other places, mostly in Zagreb (10), Slatina (10), Djurdjevac (<5), and in Klostar Podravski (<5) and Kozarevac (<5) in Djurdjevac area.

Outside Croatia

Family name Škafar (including: Skafar , Schaffar , Shkafar , Scafar and Schafar ) is present in 22 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Josip Škafar, Franjo Škafar, Blaženka Škafar, Goran Škafar, Mario Škafar, Dijana Škafar, Zoran Škafar, Tajana Škafar, Ivan Škafar, Ivanka Škafar, Jasna Škafar, Branko Škafar, Alenka Škafar, Marija Škafar, Mirko Škafar, Nataša Škafar, Željko Škafar, Vesna Škafar, Manda Škafar

Mentions in sources

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

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