In Croatia, Bučkal families are Croats (from Zlatar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zlatar and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Bučkal live in Croatia today, in 14 households. There were 110 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, four cities and 7 other places, mostly in Martinscina (10), Zagreb (<10), Osijek (<5), Jarmina in Vinkovci area (<5), and in Sesvete (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.