In Croatia, Bačvar families are Croats (from Garesnica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrbovsko area and in Garesnica. In Potok Bosiljevski in Vrbovsko area every third inhabitant had the family name Bačvar.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Bačvar live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located and four other Croatian places, mostly in Vrhovac (<10), Petrinja (<10), Gornji Stupnik in Samobor area (<5), Sisak (<5), and in Garesnica (<5).
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.