Bobanović families are Croats and they are mostly from Benkovac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Benkovac area and in Benkovac. In Polača in Benkovac area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Bobanović.
Prevalence
About 500 people with faimily name Bobanović live in Croatia today, in 180 households. There were 290 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 18 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Polaca in Benkovac area (205), Rijeka (85), Zagreb (75), Biograd na moru (45), and in Zadar (25).
Outside Croatia
Family name Bobanović (including: Bobanovic , Bobanovich ) is present in 14 countries on four continents.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.