Surname Šmer in modern Croatia

Šmer families are Croats and they are mostly from Ludbreg area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ludbreg area and in Ludbreg. In Priles in Ludbreg area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Šmer.

Prevalence

About 90 people with faimily name Šmer live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Ludbreg (10), Priles in Ludbreg area (10), Rijeka (<10), Podgorje (<10), and in Palesnik in Garesnica area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šmer (including: Smer , Schmer , Shimer , Shomer , Shumer , Shamer , Smeer , Shmer , Szmer and Sthmer ) is present in 99 countries worldwide. "Shmer " is used by few people in the United States. "Schmer " is used by some 500 people in Germany , about 400 in the United States , and some 100 people in Argentina. "Szmer " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Zvonimir Šmer, Ivanka Šmer, Mario Šmer, Dalibor Šmer, Ivan Šmer, Kristina Šmer, Zlatko Šmer, Marica Šmer, Goranka Šmer, Hrvoje Šmer, Darija Šmer, Gordana Šmer, Irena Šmer, Ivica Šmer, Stjepan Šmer, Darko Šmer, Mirjana Šmer, Branko Šmer, Ljubica Šmer

Mentions in sources

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

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