Surname Bostjančić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Bostjančić families are generally Croats (from Rijeka ), very rarely Slovenes (also from Rijeka ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and in Middle Bosnia (Zenica area).

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Bostjančić live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in only four naselja i to in Rijeka (<10), Matulji in Opatija area (<5), Opatija (<5), and in Marcelji in Rijeka area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bostjančić (including: Bostjancic , Bostyancic , Bostiancich and Bostiancic ) is present in four countries on two continents. The family name "Bostjancic " is used by some 60 people in the United States. "Bostyancic " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Iris Bostjančić, Borislav Bostjančić, Darija Bostjančić, Ivan Bostjančić, Daniel Bostjančić, Biserka Bostjančić, Ana Bostjančić, Aldo Bostjančić, Djurdjica Bostjančić, Branko Bostjančić, Ruža Bostjančić, Oliver Bostjančić, Bernard Bostjančić, Robert Bostjančić, Rozalija Bostjančić, Vjekoslav Bostjančić, Darka Bostjančić, Dragica Bostjančić

Mentions in sources

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

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