In Croatia, Bossi families are Croats by relative majority (from Rijeka ), equally Italians (also from Rijeka ), and rarely Bosniaks. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Pula.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Bossi live in Croatia today, in 7 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in two Croatian cities only, in Rijeka (<10) and Porec (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over a hundred times, the first time 1750 in source 18th Century Census.