Surname Buconjić in modern Croatia

Buconjić families are Croats and they are mostly from east Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in East Herzegovina (Nevesinje area) and in Herzegovina (Grude area). In Bojišta in East Herzegovina every second inhabitant had the family name Buconjić.

Prevalence

About 130 people with faimily name Buconjić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Zagreb (40), Zadar (15), Djakovo (15), Slavonski Brod (<10), and in Split (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Buconjić is present in 8 countries on three continents. The family name "Buconjic " is used by small number of people in Canada , small number in Bulgaria , and small number in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivica Buconjić, Goran Buconjić, Zvonimir Buconjić, Marijan Buconjić, Ivan Buconjić, Zlatko Buconjić, Nikola Buconjić, Mateo Buconjić, Eržebet Buconjić, Gorana Buconjić, Paškal Buconjić, Božica Buconjić, Bernard Buconjić, Mirko Buconjić, Predrag Buconjić, Dražen Buconjić, Robert Buconjić, Ljubomir Buconjić, Blago Buconjić

Mentions in sources

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.

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