"Podrjetlo Buratovići su Hrvati, dobrim dijelom s otoka Hvara. Razmjerno najviše Buratovića u proteklih sto godina rođeno je u Vrbnju i Svirču na otoku Hvaru, mjestima u kojima se svaki dvadeseti stanovnik prezivao Buratović. U Hrvatskoj danas živi oko sto Buratovića u više od dvadesetpet domaćinstava. Sredinom prošlog stoljeća bilo ih je približno dvjesto, pa se njihov broj do danas smanjio čak za jednu trećinu.
Buratović's are Croats, originating mainly from the island of Hvar. Most Buratović's in the past one hundred years have been born in Vrbanj and Svirča on the island of Hvar, places in which every twentieth resident had the Buratović surname. Today in Croatia there are about one hundred Buratovićs in more than twenty households. In the middle of the last century, there were approximately two hundred, and their number today has been reduced by as much as one-third.