Božac families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Pula. According to some sources they are from Zminj area (Istria), barely Italians (from Pula ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pula and Rovinj. In Cukrići in Labin area every third inhabitant had the family name Božac.
Prevalence
About 410 people with faimily name Božac live in Croatia today, in 170 households. There were 420 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Pula (180), Rovinj (25), and in Zminj (25), Cere (25) and Bencici (15) in Pazin area.
Outside Croatia
At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (2), Sweden (2), Austria (1), Germany (1), Argentina (1), and to Switzerland (1). Family name Božac is present in 13 countries on four continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.
