Botak families are Croats and they are mostly from Ludbreg area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ludbreg area and in Varazdin. In Lunjkovec in Ludbreg area every ninth inhabitant had the family name Botak.
Prevalence
About 60 people with faimily name Botak live in Croatia today, in 20 households. They are located in threee Croatian counties, threee cities and 13 other places, mostly in Koprivnica (10), in Kapela Podravska (10) and Lunjkovec (<10) in Ludbreg area, Kunovec Breg (<5), and in Bolfan (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.