Bukić families are Croats and they are mostly from Sibenik. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sibenik and in Herzegovina (Grude area). In Lozovac in Sibenik every tenth inhabitant had the family name Bukić.
Prevalence
About 200 people with faimily name Bukić live in Croatia today, in 100 households. There were 120 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent. They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Sibenik (75), Zagreb (45), Lozovac (30), Davor in Nova Gradiska area (30), and in Osijek (20).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.