Surname Bujačić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Bujačić families are Croats (from the Island of Losinj ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and on the Island of Losinj. In Premuda in Zadar every sixth inhabitant had the family name Bujačić.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Bujačić live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are only located in in 7 Croatian cities and 7 other places, mostly in Mali Losinj on the Island of Losinj (<10), Premuda (<10), Rijeka (<10), Split (<5), and in Zadar (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bujačić (including: Bujacich , Bujacic ) is present in 6 countries on three continents. "Bujacich " is used by some 100 people in Argentina and about 80 in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Petar Bujačić, Egon Bujačić, Elvis Bujačić, Sanja Bujačić, Darka Bujačić, Anton Bujačić, Silvana Bujačić, Tomislav Bujačić, Drago Bujačić, Nataša Bujačić, Andrija Bujačić, Željko Bujačić, Sanda Bujačić, Bosiljka Bujačić, Dušan Bujačić, Minka Bujačić, Geni Bujačić, Neda Bujačić, Mara Bujačić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1926 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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