Surname Bosanac in modern Croatia

Bosanac families are podjednako Croats (the family name originates from Garesnica and Nova Gradiska ) and Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Pakrac and Zagreb. In places Rijenci and Ćeralije in Slatina area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Bosanac.

Prevalence

About 860 people with faimily name Bosanac live in Croatia today, in 430 households. There were 1900 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 45 cities and 117 other places, mostly in Zagreb (160), Bjelovar (45), Osijek (40), Daruvar (35), and in Tomasica (30).

Outside Croatia

At least 29 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Australia (7), Germany (6), the United States (5), Canada (4), Austria (4), Norway (1), New Zealand (1), and to France (1).
Family name Bosanac (including: Bosanatz , Bosanaz ) is present in 23 countries worldwide. The family name "Bosanac " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 200 in Iraq , and some 200 people in Germany. "Bosanaz " is used by few people in the United States. "Bosanatz " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vesna Bosanac, Tomislav Bosanac, Gordan Bosanac, Goran Bosanac, Nedeljko Bosanac, Branimir Bosanac, Zvjezdana Bosanac, Damir Bosanac, Daša Bosanac, Branimira Bosanac, Ivanka Bosanac, Branislav Bosanac, Branka Bosanac, Miroslav Bosanac, Hajdi Bosanac, Gordana Bosanac, Lavoslav Bosanac, Zdravko Bosanac, Boško Bosanac

Mentions in sources

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

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