Bauer families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from Mursko Sredisce area , rarely Germans. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Pozega.
Prevalence
About 310 people with faimily name Bauer live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 400 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 35 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Zagreb (100), Pozega (25), Rijeka (20), Podturen in Mursko Sredisce area (15), and in Karlovac (10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over a hundred times, the first time 1749 in source 18th Century Census.