Surname Bursać in modern Croatia

Bursać families are mainly Serbs and they are mostly from Knin , whereas often Croats. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Knin and Zagreb. In Kaldrma in Knin area every second inhabitant had the family name Bursać.

Prevalence

About 210 people with faimily name Bursać live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 470 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 27 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Plavno (30), Rijeka (15), Pula (15), and in Gornji Srb in Knin area (15).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), the United States (2), and to Switzerland (2).
Family name Bursać (including: Bursac , Bursach , Bursack and Bursachi ) is present in 24 countries worldwide. The family name "Bursac " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 100 in Germany , and some 70 people in Angola. "Bursach " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Canada. "Bursack " is used by some 200 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Slobodan Bursać, Milivojka Bursać, Zdravko Bursać, Jelica Bursać, Zvjezdana Bursać, Olga Bursać, Tamara Bursać, Marinko Bursać, Goran Bursać, Ana Bursać, Stoja Bursać, Željko Bursać, Radoslav Bursać, Vanja Bursać, Borislav Bursać, Dejan Bursać, Rade Bursać, Rajko Bursać, Stevo Bursać

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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