Surname Bekavac in modern Croatia

Bekavac families are Croats and they are mostly from Imotski area. According to some sources they are from Donja Brela area, odnosno Tomislavgrad (northwest Herzegovina). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotski area and in Split. In Obrenovac in North Herzegovina every third inhabitant had the family name Bekavac.

Prevalence

About 1200 people with faimily name Bekavac live in Croatia today, in 470 households. There were 790 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 42 cities and 87 other places, mostly in Split (245), Zagreb (185), Brela in Makarska area (55), Zezevica in Omis area (45), and in Lovrec in Imotski area (40).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bekavac is present in 16 countries worldwide. The family name "Bekavac " is used by some 200 people in Germany , about 100 in the United States , and some 90 people in Ivory Coast. "Beckavac " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Stjepan Bekavac, Boris Bekavac, Radoslav Bekavac, Božo Bekavac, Vlado Bekavac, Željko Bekavac, Dubravka Bekavac, Josip Bekavac, Luka Bekavac, Iva Bekavac, Ante Bekavac, Nikola Bekavac, Marijan Bekavac, Hrvoje Bekavac, Branimir Bekavac, Ivan Bekavac, Jure Bekavac, Domagoj Bekavac, Renato Bekavac

Mentions in sources

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

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