Surname Badovinac in modern Croatia

Badovinac families are often Croats and they are mostly from Ozalj , less frequently Serbs, also from Ozlja. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ozalj and Zagreb. In places Badovinci , Kamenci and Radatovići in Ozalj every second inhabitant had the family name Badovinac.

Prevalence

About 240 people with faimily name Badovinac live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 370 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Zagreb (110), Karlovac (30), Split (15), Rijeka (15), and in Ilok (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least 18 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (5), Canada (5), Australia (4), Germany (2), Switzerland (1), and to Austria (1).
Family name Badovinac is present in 11 countries on four continents. The family name "Badovinac " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 80 in Colombia , and some 60 people in Canada. "Badovinatz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nataša Badovinac, Petar Badovinac, Damir Badovinac, Višnja Badovinac, Blanka Badovinac, Milan Badovinac, Olga Badovinac, Vlado Badovinac, Zrinka Badovinac, Tihomir Badovinac, Ljubica Badovinac, Štefica Badovinac, Gordana Badovinac, Zdravko Badovinac, Nikola Badovinac, Zlatko Badovinac, Anamarija Badovinac, Željko Badovinac, Srećko Badovinac

Mentions in sources

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

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