Surname Borovac in modern Croatia

Borovac families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Gospic , rarely Serbs. According to some sources they are from Vrgorac and from middle Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Gospic and Zagreb. In Mala Plana in Gospic every fourth inhabitant had the family name Borovac.

Prevalence

About 720 people with faimily name Borovac live in Croatia today, in 320 households. There were 800 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 46 cities and 93 other places, mostly in Zagreb (75), Split (50), Rijeka (50), Gospic (45), and in Metkovic (40).

Outside Croatia

At least 20 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (7), Germany (7), the United States (2), the United Kingdom (2), Norway (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Borovac is present in 20 countries worldwide. "Borovatz " is used by some 50 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Deni Borovac, Tijana Borovac, Tonći Borovac, Dario Borovac, Damir Borovac, Igor Borovac, Ivan Borovac, Dubravka Borovac, Anamarija Borovac, Darko Borovac, Denis Borovac, Marta Borovac, Jadranka Borovac, Sanda Borovac, Dean Borovac, Sidonija Borovac, Željko Borovac, Aleksandar Borovac, Maja Borovac

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1749 in source 18th Century Census.

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