Surname Bužan in modern Croatia

Bužan families are Croats and they are mostly from Buzet. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Slovenia. In Črnica in Buzet every seventh inhabitant had the family name Bužan.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Bužan live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 190 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly.
They are located and 7 other Croatian places, mostly in Vukovina (15), Zagreb (15), Orle in Ivanic-Grad area (10), Krivaj Sunjski in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (<10), and in Velika Gorica (<10).

Outside Croatia

At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to the United States (7) and France (1).
Family name Bužan (including: Buzan , Buzhan , Buzzian , Buzhyan , Buzhdan and Buzzan ) is present in 37 countries worldwide. The family name "Buzan " is used by some 1000 people in the United States , about 1000 in Romania , and some 500 people in Poland.

Characteristic first names

Romeo Bužan, Joso Bužan, Marin Bužan, Tomislav Bužan, Senka Bužan, Olivija Bužan, Dario Bužan, Mihaela Bužan, Ivan Bužan, Herman Bužan, Siniša Bužan, Kristina Bužan, Tomislava Bužan, Sanjin Bužan, Sabrina Bužan, Maja Bužan, Marko Bužan, Marijan Bužan, Tihomir Bužan

Mentions in sources

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

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