Bakotin families are Croats and they are mostly from Kastel Sucurac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Kastel Sucurac.
Prevalence
About 80 people with faimily name Bakotin live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent. They are only located in in 6 Croatian cities and two other places, mostly in Kastel Sucurac (45), Split (25), Solin (<5), Kastel Kambelovac (<5), and in Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Bakotin is present in four countries on two continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.