In Croatia, Budački families are Croats (from Duga Resa area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac. In Donja Stranica in Ozalj area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Budački.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Budački live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Bukovec Zelinski (<5), and in Ladesici (<5) and Jakovci Netreticki (<5) in Duga Resa area.
Outside Croatia
Family name Budački is present in three countries on two continents. The family name "Budacki " is used by some 70 people in the United States and small number in Canada.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.