Surname Bukva in modern Croatia

Bukva families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Nin , often Serbs, very rarely Bosniaks. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and Bjelovar. In Pediše in Romania (Bosnia) every second inhabitant had the family name Bukva.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Bukva live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 130 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Vrsi (20), Zadar (10), Zagreb (10), Galovac (10), and in Rijeka (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bukva (including: Buchneva , Buchova , Buchkova , Buchwa , Bhukva , Bucheva , Bucwa , Bukwa and Buckwa ) is present in 38 countries worldwide. The family name "Bukva " is used by some 90 people in Czech Republic , about 80 in Slovakia , and some 50 people in the United States. "Bukwa " is used by small number of people in Poland , small number in France , and small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Slobodan Bukva, Borivoj Bukva, Nataša Bukva, Ive Bukva, Perica Bukva, Zdravko Bukva, Marija Bukva, Vesna Bukva, Marko Bukva, Branko Bukva, Nina Bukva, Nediljko Bukva, Žana Bukva, Irena Bukva, Davorin Bukva, Antun Bukva, Zoran Bukva, Boris Bukva, Sanja Bukva

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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