Surname Žapčić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Žapčić families are Croats (from Ozalj ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Karlovac and in Ivanic-Grad area.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Žapčić live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in two Croatian counties, four cities and 6 other places, mostly in Karlovac (10), Mali Erjavec (<10), Zagreb (<5), Vivodina (<5), and in Gornji Lovic (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Žapčić is present in three countries on two continents. The family name "Zapcic " is used by some 100 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Dražen Žapčić, Valerija Žapčić, Domagoj Žapčić, Marin Žapčić, Nikola Žapčić, Mirko Žapčić, Josip Žapčić, Ivanka Žapčić, Darko Žapčić, Mijo Žapčić, Slavica Žapčić, Magda Žapčić, Ana Žapčić, Vlado Žapčić, Vladimira Žapčić, Andreja Žapčić, Sanja Žapčić, Anka Žapčić, Margareta Žapčić

Mentions in sources

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.

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