Surname Buklijaš in modern Croatia

Buklijaš families are Croats and they are mostly from Vrgorac. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Vrgorac and in Backa, Vojvodina.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Buklijaš live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and four other places, mostly in Split (15), Zagreb (15), Vrgorac (15), Orebic on the Peljesac peninsula (10), and in Solin (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least six families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to Germany (5) and the United States (1).
Family name Buklijaš is present in three countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Boris Buklijaš, Tatjana Buklijaš, Ivana Buklijaš, Marina Buklijaš, Nediljka Buklijaš, Antun Buklijaš, Marija Buklijaš, Ivan Buklijaš, Marko Buklijaš, Miroslav Buklijaš, Ivica Buklijaš, Petar Buklijaš, Milena Buklijaš, Vesna Buklijaš, Ante Buklijaš, Radoslav Buklijaš, Ljuba Buklijaš, Mara Buklijaš, Ljiljana Buklijaš

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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