Surname Butija in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Butija families are Croats (from Ivanec area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ivanec area and in Varazdin.

Prevalence

About 10 people with faimily name Butija live in Croatia today, in five households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Vinica (<5), Cestica (<5) and Calinec (<5) in Ivanec area, Petrijanec in Varazdin area (<5), and in Babinec in Ivanec area (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Butija (including: Butiya , Bhutiya , Butieva , Buttiya , Buthiya and Butiyya ) is present in 10 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Boris Butija, Karmen Butija, Nenad Butija, Vladimir Butija, Slavko Butija, Antonija Butija, Katarina Butija, Ivan Butija, Dragica Butija, Franjo Butija, Marjan Butija, Marija Butija, Stanko Butija, Liljana Butija, Mario Butija, David Butija, Dajana Butija, Milka Butija, Trezika Butija

Mentions in sources

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

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