In Croatia, Bugar families are Croats (from Bjelovar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Bjelovar.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Bugar live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in only five naselja i to in Klokocevac (<10), Zagreb (<10), Velika Gorica (<5), Vinica in Ivanec area (<5), and in Hudovljani in Koprivnica area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.