Surname Bogunović in modern Croatia

Bogunović families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Ploce , but often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Benkovac and Zagreb. In Baćina in Ploce every sixth inhabitant had the family name Bogunović.

Prevalence

About 480 people with faimily name Bogunović live in Croatia today, in 250 households. There were 820 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 45 cities and 49 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Rijeka (35), Ploce (30), Split (25), and in Slavonski Brod (25).

Outside Croatia

At least 15 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (5), the United States (4), Germany (2), Norway (1), Argentina (1), Austria (1), and to France (1).
Family name Bogunović (including: Bogunovich , Bogunovic and Bogunowicz ) is present in 22 countries worldwide. The family name "Bogunovic " is used by some 60 people in Russian Federation , some 60 people in the United States , and small number of people in Australia. "Bogunovich " is used by some 70 people in the United States , about 60 in Argentina , and small number of people in Australia.

Characteristic first names

Branko Bogunović, Nikola Bogunović, Aleksandar Bogunović, Đurđa Bogunović, Matko Bogunović, Goran Bogunović, Zoran Bogunović, Janko Bogunović, Selimir Bogunović, Andrija Bogunović, Hrvoje Bogunović, Dušan Bogunović, Slavko Bogunović, Ljiljana Bogunović, Boris Bogunović, Igor Bogunović, Iris Bogunović, Krešimir Bogunović, Marko Bogunović

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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