Surname Bahat in modern Croatia

Bahat families are Croats and they are mostly from Ludbreg area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ludbreg area and in Ludbreg. In Sveti Đurđ in Ludbreg area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Bahat.

Prevalence

About 150 people with faimily name Bahat live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Sveti Djurdj in Ludbreg area (35), Zagreb (20), Ludbreg (15), Varazdin (<10), and in Varazdinske Toplice (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bahat (including: Bahatheq , Bachat , Bahathiq , Bahath , Bachvat , Bachmat , Bahatt , Bahathi and Bathat ) is present in 39 countries worldwide. "Bahatt " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nenad Bahat, Anđelko Bahat, Nataša Bahat, Alenka Bahat, Ivan Bahat, Bojana Bahat, Lena Bahat, Antun Bahat, Suzana Bahat, Tomislav Bahat, Željko Bahat, Mario Bahat, Miljenko Bahat, Božena Bahat, Ljerka Bahat, Marko Bahat, Josip Bahat, Franjo Bahat, Zdenka Bahat

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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