Surname Bukarica in modern Croatia

Bukarica families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Drnis , often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Drnis and Benkovac.

Prevalence

About 300 people with faimily name Bukarica live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 340 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 17 cities and 19 other places, mostly in Siveric (65), Zadar (45), Zagreb (35), Rijeka (20), and in Split (20).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (2), the United Kingdom (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Bukarica (including: Bucariza , Bucarizza ) is present in 13 countries worldwide. The family name "Bukarica " is used by small number of people in Australia , small number in Germany , and small number of people in Canada , small number of people in the United States. "Bucariza " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vesna Bukarica, Jadranka Bukarica, Hrvoje Bukarica, Veljko Bukarica, Nikica Bukarica, Milica Bukarica, Dino Bukarica, Jurica Bukarica, Saša Bukarica, Đerasim Bukarica, Ivan Bukarica, Nikola Bukarica, Rajko Bukarica, Zdravko Bukarica, Ivana Bukarica, Olivija Bukarica, Slavka Bukarica, Mile Bukarica, Jerina Bukarica

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1705 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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