Surname Bukovčan in modern Croatia

Bukovčan families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Koprivnica and in Varazdin area. In Ljubelj Kalnički in Varazdin area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Bukovčan.

Prevalence

About 270 people with faimily name Bukovčan live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 38 other places, mostly in Novi Marof (40), Zagreb (35), Zablatje in Koprivnica area (15), Ljubelj Kalnicki in Varazdin area (15), and in Koprivnica (15).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), Austria (2), Canada (1), the United States (1), Australia (1), and to Belgium (1).
Family name Bukovčan (including: Bukovcan , Bukowczan and Buckovcan ) is present in 11 countries on four continents. The family name "Bukovcan " is used by some 60 people in the United States , small number in Canada , and small number of people in Czech Republic.

Characteristic first names

Damir Bukovčan, Dragica Bukovčan, Željko Bukovčan, Zdenka Bukovčan, Vlado Bukovčan, Blaženka Bukovčan, Sonja Bukovčan, Ana Bukovčan, Ivanka Bukovčan, Patricija Bukovčan, Tomislav Bukovčan, Renata Bukovčan, Božo Bukovčan, Jasna Bukovčan, Matija Bukovčan, Marijan Bukovčan, Dijana Bukovčan, Ninoslav Bukovčan, Zvjezdana Bukovčan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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