Surname Buturajac in modern Croatia

Buturajac families are Croats and they are mostly from Duga Resa area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Duga Resa area and in Karlovac. In places Vinski Vrh and Skupica in Duga Resa area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Buturajac.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Buturajac live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than tripled.
They are located in four Croatian counties and 9 other places, mostly in Karlovac (30), Zagreb (<10), Jurovski Brod in Ozalj area (<10), Skupica in Duga Resa area (<10), and in Duga Resa (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Buturajac is present in two countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Darko Buturajac, Danijel Buturajac, Marijan Buturajac, Goran Buturajac, Vlasta Buturajac, Tanja Buturajac, Đurđica Buturajac, Marko Buturajac, Stjepan Buturajac, Božidar Buturajac, Denis Buturajac, Anita Buturajac, Kristina Buturajac, Velimir Buturajac, Robert Buturajac, Ivana Buturajac, Franjo Buturajac, Dragutin Buturajac, Jadranka Buturajac

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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