Surname Bakota in modern Croatia

Bakota families are Croats and they are mostly from Makarska area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Makarska area and in Split. In places Biokovsko Selo and Krstatice in Makarska area every eighth inhabitant had the family name Bakota.

Prevalence

About 450 people with faimily name Bakota live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Split (200), Podstrana in Solin area (60), Zagreb (40), Osijek (35), and in Makarska (35).

Outside Croatia

At least two families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (1) and Australia (1).
Family name Bakota (including: Bacota , Bachota ) is present in 19 countries worldwide. The family name "Bakota " is used by some 200 people in Poland , about 100 in the United States , and some 60 people in Ukraine. "Bachota " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Boris Bakota, Neda Bakota, Gordan Bakota, Lidija Bakota, Ivo Bakota, Jure Bakota, Marija Bakota, Valentin Bakota, Nediljko Bakota, Miljenko Bakota, Daniela Bakota, Mira Bakota, Stijepan Bakota, Davorina Bakota, Ratko Bakota, Luka Bakota, Aisa Bakota, Ivica Bakota, Ante Bakota

Mentions in sources

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

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