In Croatia, Bubanić families are Croats (from Ludbreg area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and in Ludbreg area.
Prevalence
About 50 people with faimily name Bubanić live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 80 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in four Croatian counties, in 6 cities and four other places, mostly in Varazdin (20), Lestakovec in Ludbreg area (<10), Prelog (<10), Jalzabet in Ludbreg area (<10), and in Zagreb (<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.