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Surname Boban in modern Croatia
Boban families are almost entirely Croats and they are mostly from north Herzegovina. According to some sources they are from Klisa area, very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and in North Herzegovina (Jablanica area). In Sovići in North Herzegovina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Boban.
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Prevalence
About 1400 people with faimily name Boban live in Croatia today, in 570 households. There were 710 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 50 cities and 80 other places, mostly in Split (335), Zagreb (235), Solin (210), and in Prugovo (80) and Klis (75) in Solin area.
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Outside Croatia
At least 16 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (7), France (3), the United States (2), Australia (2), Austria (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Boban (including: Bobán , Bobban ) is present in 47 countries worldwide. The family name "Boban " is used by some 500 people in France , about 400 in the United States , and some 300 people in Romania.
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Characteristic first names
Stjepko Boban,
Zvonimir Boban,
Vesna Boban,
Sanja Boban,
Vjekoslav Boban,
Mladen Boban,
Nataša Boban,
Duška Boban,
Marijo Boban,
Saša Boban,
Mate Boban,
Ivana Boban,
Ana Boban,
Marina Boban,
Tomislav Boban,
Dražen Boban,
Nelita Boban,
Marinko Boban,
Aida Boban
