Surname Bočkaj in modern Croatia

Bočkaj families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Krapina. In Juranšćina in Zlatar every tenth inhabitant had the family name Bočkaj.

Prevalence

About 560 people with faimily name Bočkaj live in Croatia today, in 220 households. There were 480 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 36 cities and 71 other places, mostly in Zagreb (85), Dekanovec in Prelog area (25), Lepajci (25), Krapina (20), and in Gornja Stubica in Donja Stubica area (15).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bočkaj (including: Bockaj , Bocskay , Bochkay , Bockay , Bockai , Boczkaj , Boczkay and Bochkai ) is present in 21 countries worldwide. "Bochkay " is used by small number of people in Ukraine and small number in the United States. "Bocskay " is used by some 300 people in Hungary , about 70 in the United States , and small number of people in Korea (South). "Boczkay " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Alojzije Bočkaj, Nino Bočkaj, Ljiljana Bočkaj, Damir Bočkaj, Eduard Bočkaj, Ivanka Bočkaj, Stanislav Bočkaj, Štefica Bočkaj, Josip Bočkaj, Zlatko Bočkaj, Dragutin Bočkaj, Stjepan Bočkaj, Natalija Bočkaj, Nina Bočkaj, Josipa Bočkaj, Ivan Bočkaj, Mladen Bočkaj, Boris Bočkaj, Sanja Bočkaj

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1683 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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