Surname Bach in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Bach families are generally Croats (from Karlovac area ), very rarely Hungarians (from Osijek ), and barely Macedonians (from Zagreb ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Koprivnica.

Prevalence

About 60 people with faimily name Bach live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Osijek (<5), Opatija (<5), Djurdjevac (<5), and in Draganic in Karlovac area (<5).

Outside Croatia

At least three families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Austria (1), Germany (1), and to the United States (1).
Family name Bach (including: Bachha , Bachhu , Baach , Bachhe , Bachhi , Bacch , Bachh , Bachch and Bachhv ) is present in 142 countries worldwide. The family name "Bach " is used by some 100000 people in Viet Nam , about 40000 in Germany , and some 20000 people in the United States. "Bachh " is used by few people in the United States. "Bachhu " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nenad Bach, Tomo Bach, Vjekoslava Bach, Barbara Bach, Vjekoslav Bach, Josip Bach, Ivan Bach, Bonnie Bach, Alexander Bach, Sanja Bach, Nina Bach, Roman Bach, Natalija Bach, Tomislav Bach, Franz Bach, Franjo Bach, Mihael Bach, Bruna Bach, Adolf Bach

Mentions in sources

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

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