Surname Boloban in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Boloban families are mainly Serbs, less frequently Croats (from Orahovica ), and barely Bosniaks (from North Herzegovina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Glina and Vukovar. In Bojna in Glina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Boloban.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Boloban live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and threee other places, mostly in Imotski (<10), Darda in Osijek area (<10), Donji Miholjac (<10), Brsadin in Vukovar area (<10), and in Osijek (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Boloban is present in 11 countries on three continents.

Characteristic first names

Svetlana Boloban, Milica Boloban, Zlatko Boloban, Milan Boloban, Marijana Boloban, Mirjana Boloban, Bojan Boloban, Miloš Boloban, Ibro Boloban, Miljka Boloban, Duško Boloban, Saša Boloban, Tilija Boloban, Branko Boloban, Anka Boloban, Janja Boloban, Rade Boloban, Dragica Boloban, Salko Boloban

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1923 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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