Surname Buntić in modern Croatia

Buntić families are Croats and they are mostly from Herzegovina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Ljubuski area) and in Herzegovina (Capljina area). In places Miletina , Bivolje Brdo and Počitelj in Herzegovina every third inhabitant had the family name Buntić.

Prevalence

About 300 people with faimily name Buntić live in Croatia today, in 140 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 33 cities and 32 other places, mostly in Zagreb (100), Split (25), Slavonski Brod (15), Dubrovnik (15), and in Metkovic (15).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (2), the United Kingdom (1), the United States (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Buntić (including: Buntic , Buntich and Buntichai ) is present in 16 countries on four continents. The family name "Buntic " is used by some 400 people in Germany , about 100 in the United States , and small number of people in Canada. "Buntich " is used by some 90 people in the United States and small number in Uruguay. "Buntichai " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Vesna Buntić, Dubravka Buntić, Ivana Buntić, Ljiljana Buntić, Nevenko Buntić, Zvonko Buntić, Mate Buntić, Slavica Buntić, Damir Buntić, Stipe Buntić, Dubravko Buntić, Krešimir Buntić, Jasminka Buntić, Marko Buntić, Sanela Buntić, Suzana Buntić, Nataša Buntić, Željka Buntić, Petrana Buntić

Mentions in sources

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

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