Surname Bobić in modern Croatia

Bobić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Pasman , also Serbs, very rarely Bosniaks (from Cazinska Krajina Region, Bosnia). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zadar. In Ličko Petrovo Selo in Otocac area every fourth inhabitant had the family name Bobić.

Prevalence

About 720 people with faimily name Bobić live in Croatia today, in 360 households. There were 1100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 50 cities and 78 other places, mostly in Zagreb (150), Zadar (50), Rijeka (35), Osijek (30), and in Pasman on the Island of Pasman (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 16 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (5), France (3), the United States (2), Germany (2), the United Kingdom (2), Canada (1), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Bobić (including: Bobich , Bobic , Bobick , Bobics , Bobicz , Bobych , Bobici , Bobbick , Bobicha and Bobiec ) is present in 34 countries worldwide. The family name "Bobic " is used by some 200 people in Romania , about 100 in the United States , and some 100 people in Uganda. "Bobich " is used by some 300 people in the United States , about 300 in Belarus , and some 90 people in Austria. "Bobicz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Davor Bobić, Vedranka Bobić, Predrag Bobić, Lana Bobić, Nenad Bobić, Jasminka Bobić, Dubravko Bobić, Damir Bobić, Dijana Bobić, Dušan Bobić, Renato Bobić, Ante Bobić, Ivo Bobić, Stevan Bobić, Slaven Bobić, Zoran Bobić, Nikola Bobić, Tomislav Bobić, Mladen Bobić

Mentions in sources

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.

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