Surname Bačko in modern Croatia

Bačko families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Lastovo , but often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Lastovo and in Knin area.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Bačko live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 11 cities and 8 other places, mostly in Laslovo in Osijek area (10), Uble on the Island of Lastovo (10), Zagreb (<10), Spanat in Slatina area (<10), and in Varazdin (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bačko (including: Backo , Bachko , Bacsko , Bachenko , Bachako , Baczko , Bachurko , Batschko , Bacheko and Baciko ) is present in 61 countries worldwide. The family name "Backo " is used by some 800 people in Slovakia , about 500 in Central African Republic , and some 400 people in the United States. "Bacsko " is used by some 500 people in Hungary and about 50 in the United States. "Baczko " is used by small number of people in Germany , small number in Poland , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Emil Bačko, Eduard Bačko, Ines Bačko, Ankica Bačko, Zoran Bačko, Elizabeta Bačko, Marko Bačko, Marijo Bačko, Marica Bačko, Dragana Bačko, Perica Bačko, Mihaela Bačko, Mirjana Bačko, Robert Bačko, Edi Bačko, Bruno Bačko, Danijela Bačko, Tonka Bačko, Ištvan Bačko

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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