Surname Buratović in modern Croatia

Buratović families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Hvar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Dubrovnik.

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Buratović live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 200 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and 7 other places, mostly in Vrbanj (35), Stari Grad (25) and Jelsa (15) on the Island of Hvar, Rijeka (15), and in Svirce on the Island of Hvar (15).

Outside Croatia

At least five families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (2), Argentina (1), Australia (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Buratović (including: Buratovic , Buratovich ) is present in 16 countries worldwide. "Buratovich " is used by some 300 people in Argentina , about 80 in South Africa , and some 60 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Damir Buratović, Latko Buratović, Marija Buratović, Blaž Buratović, Antonio Buratović, Marica Buratović, Marko Buratović, Ivo Buratović, Antun Buratović, Nenad Buratović, Vesna Buratović, Nikša Buratović, Katarina Buratović, Vladimir Buratović, Cvjetko Buratović, Meri Buratović, Milan Buratović, Katija Buratović, Rino Buratović

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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