In Croatia, Buk families are Croats (from Petrinja area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 30 people with faimily name Buk live in Croatia today, in 14 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 6 cities and threee other places, mostly in Osijek (<10), Virovitica (<10), Marinici in Rijeka area (<10), Karlovac (<5), and in Rijeka (<5).