Surname Šegović in modern Croatia

Šegović families are Croats and they are mostly from Peljesac Peninsula. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Cakovec. In Zdenčec in Cazma every fifth inhabitant had the family name Šegović.

Prevalence

About 440 people with faimily name Šegović live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 310 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 47 other places, mostly in Zagreb (55), Varazdin (30), Split (25), Mala Subotica in Cakovec area (25), and in Cakovec (25).

Outside Croatia

Family name Šegović (including: Segovic , Segovich , Shlegovich and Shegovich ) is present in 8 countries on three continents. "Segovich " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number of people in Venezuela.

Characteristic first names

Milica Šegović, Predrag Šegović, Đuro Šegović, Josip Šegović, Sanja Šegović, Željko Šegović, Branimir Šegović, Đurđa Šegović, Marijan Šegović, Dasenko Šegović, Gordana Šegović, Brankica Šegović, Nediljko Šegović, Miroslav Šegović, Damir Šegović, Ivanka Šegović, Krešimir Šegović, Mirela Šegović, Mihael Šegović

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.

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