Surname Šneler in modern Croatia

Šneler families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrbovsko area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Zagreb. In Drenovica Lipnička in Ozalj area every third inhabitant had the family name Šneler.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Šneler live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 18 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Rijeka (15), Zejane in Opatija area (<10), Velika Buna (<10), and in Voloder in Kutina area (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šneler (including: Schneller , Sneller , Sneler , Schandeler , Schindeler , Schineller , Shneller , Szneler , Schneler and Shneler ) is present in 44 countries worldwide. The family name "Sneler " is used by small number of people in Czech Republic and small number in the United States. "Schneler " is used by few people in the United States. "Sneller " is used by some 2000 people in the United States , about 400 in the Netherlands , and some 100 people in Afghanistan.

Characteristic first names

Božidar Šneler, Marino Šneler, Romana Šneler, Janko Šneler, Damir Šneler, Lidija Šneler, Sanja Šneler, Siniša Šneler, Alenka Šneler, Aleksandar Šneler, Ljiljana Šneler, Ivan Šneler, Vesna Šneler, Veronika Šneler, Zoran Šneler, Andreja Šneler, Martina Šneler, Zvonimir Šneler, Eduard Šneler

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over forty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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