In Croatia, Žajgar families are generally Croats (from Nova Gradiska ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Nova Gradiska and Slavonski Brod.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Žajgar live in Croatia today, in 12 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and two other places, mostly in Slavonski Brod (<10), Nova Gradiska (<10), Vedrine in Sinj area (<10), Visoka Greda in Nova Gradiska area (<5), and in Zagreb (<5).
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.