Surname Žnidar in modern Croatia

Žnidar families are Croats and they are mostly from Cakovec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Žnidar live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 14 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Varazdin (15), Nedelisce in Cakovec area (15), Cakovec (10), and in Koprivnica (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Žnidar is present in three countries on two continents. The family name "Znidar " is used by some 100 people in the United States and about 80 in Germany.

Characteristic first names

Krešimir Žnidar, Franjo Žnidar, Hrvoje Žnidar, Ivica Žnidar, Dejan Žnidar, Vesna Žnidar, Ivan Žnidar, Želimir Žnidar, Gordana Žnidar, Miroslav Žnidar, Saša Žnidar, Danijel Žnidar, Kristijan Žnidar, Marijana Žnidar, Željko Žnidar, Nikola Žnidar, Albina Žnidar, Nevenka Žnidar, Dalibor Žnidar

Mentions in sources

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

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