In Croatia, Boica families are Croats (from Zagreb ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Boica live in Croatia today, in one household only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only one small Croatian place, in Sesvete (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.