In Croatia, Lacota families are Italians (from Umag ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Buje and Umag.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Lacota live in Croatia today, in four households only. They are located in only two Croatian places: in Babici (<5) and Brtonigla in Buje area (<5).
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.