Surname Bolf in modern Croatia

Bolf families are Croats and they are mostly from Delnice area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Delnice.

Prevalence

About 240 people with faimily name Bolf live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 16 other places, mostly in Delnice (55), Zagreb (55), Rijeka (30), and in Lokve (30) and Ravna Gora (15) in Delnice area.

Outside Croatia

At least 11 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (4), the United Kingdom (2), the United States (2), Germany (2), and to Sweden (1).
Family name Bolf is present in 20 countries worldwide. The family name "Bolf " is used by some 600 people in the United States , about 300 in Czech Republic , and some 300 people in Viet Nam. "Bolph " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Josip Bolf, Barbara Bolf, Vidoslav Bolf, Mira Bolf, Višnja Bolf, Nenad Bolf, Jaroslav Bolf, Dubravka Bolf, Marijan Bolf, Davor Bolf, Aleks Bolf, Zlatko Bolf, Ljerka Bolf, Mladen Bolf, Sanja Bolf, Renata Bolf, Marijana Bolf, Saša Bolf, Alan Bolf

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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