Surname Butorac in modern Croatia

Butorac families are Croats and they are mostly from Novi Vinodolski. According to some sources they are from Gospic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Gospic. In places Javorje and Krmpotske Vodice in Novi Vinodolski every second inhabitant had the family name Butorac.

Prevalence

About 1100 people with faimily name Butorac live in Croatia today, in 520 households. There were 1100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 52 cities and 95 other places, mostly in Zagreb (220), Rijeka (150), Novi Vinodolski (110), Crikvenica (65), and in Gospic (45).

Outside Croatia

At least 23 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (9), the United States (5), Australia (4), the United Kingdom (1), France (1), Mexico (1), Sweden (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Butorac is present in 19 countries worldwide. The family name "Butorac " is used by some 600 people in the United States , about 200 in Germany , and some 60 people in Canada.

Characteristic first names

Dino Butorac, Franjo Butorac, Dražan Butorac, Zorana Butorac, Jasminka Butorac, Ksenija Butorac, Željko Butorac, Nikola Butorac, Dean Butorac, Ivan Butorac, Drago Butorac, Branka Butorac, Lukrecija Butorac, Miroslav Butorac, Anđelko Butorac, Alenka Butorac, Zoran Butorac, Vesna Butorac, Josip Butorac

Mentions in sources

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

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