Surname Bocak in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Bocak families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Djurdjevac. In Novaki Ravenski in Krizevci every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Bocak.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Bocak live in Croatia today, in 17 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (<10), Djurdjevac (<10), Stubicke Toplice in Oroslavje area (<5), Virje in Djurdjevac area (<5), and in Prikraj Krizevacki (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bocak (including: Bozak , Bozhak , Bozack , Bocache , Bochak , Bocák , Bocach , Bozsak and Bhocak ) is present in 31 countries worldwide. The family name "Bocak " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Bozak " is used by some 1000 people in Turkey , about 600 in the United States , and some 300 people in Canada. "Bozack " is used by some 70 people in the United States and small number in South Africa.

Characteristic first names

Krešimir Bocak, Gordana Bocak, Tihomir Bocak, Katarina Bocak, Valentin Bocak, Ljiljana Bocak, Davor Bocak, Ana Bocak, Vladimir Bocak, Kristina Bocak, Ljubomir Bocak, Marijan Bocak, Zvonko Bocak, Velimir Bocak, Ivan Bocak, Božica Bocak, Stjepan Bocak, Neda Bocak, Đurđa Bocak

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1683 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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