Surname Aničić in modern Croatia

Aničić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Herzegovina (Mostar area) and in Bosanian Posavina (Modrica area). In places Raška Gora and Raštani in Herzegovina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Aničić.

Prevalence

About 760 people with faimily name Aničić live in Croatia today, in 340 households. There were 600 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 46 cities and 80 other places, mostly in Zagreb (115), Split (85), Pula (35), Rijeka (30), and in Osijek (25).

Outside Croatia

At least 33 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (12), the United States (7), Switzerland (6), Sweden (3), Australia (2), Argentina (2), and to Canada (1).
Family name Aničić (including: Anicich , Anicas , Anicic , Anichic and Anichich ) is present in 23 countries worldwide. The family name "Anicic " is used by small number of people in Germany , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Canada. "Anicich " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 50 in Australia , and small number of people in New Zealand.

Characteristic first names

Josip Aničić, Miljenko Aničić, Branka Aničić, Dražen Aničić, Boris Aničić, Ante Aničić, Mišo Aničić, Sebastijan Aničić, Nenad Aničić, Edo Aničić, Serđo Aničić, Ivica Aničić, Jovana Aničić, Ljubica Aničić, Davor Aničić, Marko Aničić, Suzana Aničić, Klaudijo Aničić, Dubravka Aničić

Mentions in sources

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

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