Surname Bašić in modern Croatia

Bašić families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Nin area , barely Bosniaks (from Cazinska Krajina Region, Bosnia) and Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Zagreb. In Broćanac in Herzegovina every fourth inhabitant had the family name Bašić.

Prevalence

About 5800 people with faimily name Bašić live in Croatia today, in 2400 households. There were 3700 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 105 cities and 415 other places, mostly in Zagreb (950), Split (785), Zadar (270), Rijeka (195), and in Slavonski Brod (165).

Outside Croatia

At least 109 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (40), the United States (18), Australia (17), Argentina (7), Austria (5), Switzerland (5), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (3), Norway (3), France (2), Canada (2), Belgium (1), Chile (1), and to the Netherlands (1).
Family name Bašić (including: Basic , Basich , Bashich , Bassick , Bassich , Bashic , Basick , Bashnick , Bassic and Basics ) is present in 71 countries worldwide. The family name "Basic " is used by some 9000 people in Bangladesh , about 5000 in Germany , and some 3000 people in the United States. "Basich " is used by some 900 people in the United States , about 300 in Mexico , and some 300 people in Ukraine. "Bashic " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Damir Bašić, Dragan Bašić, Slavica Bašić, Davor Bašić, Nikola Bašić, Silvio Bašić, Ljubomir Bašić, Tomislav Bašić, Petar Bašić, Ivan Bašić, Hubert Bašić, Inga Bašić, Hrvoje Bašić, Tihomir Bašić, Relja Bašić, Vladimir Bašić, Nikolina Bašić, Ivica Bašić, Šime Bašić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned about one hundred times, the first time 1691 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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