In Croatia, Bukvar families are Bosniaks (from Tuzla Region (Bosnia) ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Tuzla Region, Bosnia (Lopare area). In Lipovice in Tuzla Region (Bosnia) every third inhabitant had the family name Bukvar.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Bukvar live in Croatia today, in two households only. They are located in only threee naselja i to in Pula (<5), Suzan on the Island of Krk (<5), and in Slavonski Brod (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.