Surname Burnać in modern Croatia

Burnać families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Knin area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Knin and in Knin area. In Puljane in Knin area every twentieth inhabitant had the family name Burnać.

Prevalence

About 80 people with faimily name Burnać live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 10 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (30), Knin (10), Podstrana in Solin area (<10), Split (<10), and in Sibenik (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Burnać (including: Burnac , Burnach , Burnacci and Burnacz ) is present in 12 countries on three continents. "Burnach " is used by small number of people in the United States. "Burnacz " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Paško Burnać, Marinko Burnać, Marija Burnać, Bojan Burnać, Božica Burnać, Željko Burnać, Nina Burnać, Nives Burnać, Jure Burnać, Robert Burnać, Slavko Burnać, Ana Burnać, Jasminka Burnać, Ivica Burnać, Đerđ Burnać, Marijana Burnać, Ivan Burnać, Ante Burnać, Joško Burnać

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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