Surname Žagar in modern Croatia

Žagar families are Croats and they are mostly from Cabar area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cabar and Zagreb. In places Prezid and Vrhovci in Cabar every sixth inhabitant had the family name Žagar.

Prevalence

About 1500 people with faimily name Žagar live in Croatia today, in 670 households. There were 1800 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 58 cities and 152 other places, mostly in Zagreb (265), Rijeka (100), Prezid (80), Razanac in Nin area (65), and in Velika Gorica (40).

Outside Croatia

At least 46 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: France (23), Germany (11), the United States (4), Canada (3), Australia (2), Spain (1), Chile (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Žagar (including: Zagar , Zagaar , Zaghar , Zhagar , Zsagar and Zaggar ) is present in 24 countries worldwide. The family name "Zagar " is used by some 1000 people in the United States , about 100 in France , and some 100 people in Germany. "Zagaar " is used by some 1000 people in Libya , about 60 in Algeria , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Silvio Žagar, Miljenko Žagar, Mario Žagar, Ninoslav Žagar, Leo Žagar, Iva Žagar, Krešimir Žagar, Marinko Žagar, Drago Žagar, Zvonko Žagar, Marija Žagar, Davorka Žagar, Ivica Žagar, Grozdana Žagar, Josip Žagar, Davor Žagar, Nikola Žagar, Mirna Žagar, Maja Žagar

Mentions in sources

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

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