Surname Bučar in modern Croatia

Bučar families are Croats and they are mostly from Ozalj area. According to some sources they are from Bucar in Zumberak. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Ozalj area. In places Barovka and Prvinci in Jastrebarsko area every third inhabitant had the family name Bučar.

Prevalence

About 250 people with faimily name Bučar live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 280 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 35 other places, mostly in Zagreb (90), Donji Ostrc in Ozalj area (20), Karlovac (15), Jastrebarsko (10), and in Vuksin Sipak (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Bučar (including: Bucar , Buchar , Bhuchar , Buzzar , Buchcar , Bhucar , Buchnar , Buchchar , Bhuucar and Buchear ) is present in 38 countries worldwide. The family name "Bucar " is used by some 2000 people in Brazil , about 400 in the United States , and some 300 people in Mozambique. "Buchar " is used by some 400 people in Czech Republic , about 200 in the United States , and some 50 people in Argentina. "Buzzar " is used by small number of people in the United States , small number in Brazil , and small number of people in Jamaica.

Characteristic first names

Dubravko Bučar, Boris Bučar, Matija Bučar, Kristina Bučar, Danijela Bučar, Janko Bučar, Mirjan Bučar, Goran Bučar, Nenad Bučar, Tihomir Bučar, Stjepan Bučar, Biserka Bučar, Marija Bučar, Jadranko Bučar, Ivana Bučar, Ines Bučar, Donata Bučar, Davor Bučar, Martin Bučar

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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