Surname Bakotić in modern Croatia

Bakotić families are Croats and they are mostly from Sibenik area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Sibenik.

Prevalence

About 220 people with faimily name Bakotić live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 250 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 9 other places, mostly in Split (100), Primosten in Sibenik area (40), Zagreb (20), Kastel Gomilica (15), and in Rijeka (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bakotić (including: Bakotic , Bakotich and Bacotich ) is present in 10 countries on four continents. The family name "Bakotic " is used by some 70 people in the United States and small number in Australia. "Bakotich " is used by some 90 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mirjana Bakotić, Božidar Bakotić, Ozren Bakotić, Marija Bakotić, Nataša Bakotić, Duje Bakotić, Danica Bakotić, Sanjin Bakotić, Ivan Bakotić, Jordan Bakotić, Ana Bakotić, Karmen Bakotić, Margita Bakotić, Ivana Bakotić, Jelena Bakotić, Ljubica Bakotić, Petar Bakotić, Zlatka Bakotić, Ante Bakotić

Mentions in sources

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

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