Surname Bušić in modern Croatia

Bušić families are Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Krajina. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Imotsko and in Bosnian Krajina (Sipovo area). In Gorica in Bosnian Krajina every fourth inhabitant had the family name Bušić.

Prevalence

About 1400 people with faimily name Bušić live in Croatia today, in 600 households. There were 900 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 60 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 55 cities and 109 other places, mostly in Zagreb (280), Split (135), Imotski (135), Zupanja (85), and in Djakovo (60).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (1), Austria (1), Germany (1), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Bušić (including: Busic , Busick , Busich , Bushmich , Bussick , Bushick , Bushwick , Bushnick , Buschick and Bushich ) is present in 31 countries worldwide. The family name "Busic " is used by some 2000 people in the United States , about 600 in Germany , and some 100 people in Australia. "Busich " is used by small number of people in the Philippines , small number of people in the United States , and small number of people in Argentina. "Busick " is used by some 2000 people in the United States , about 400 in Guinea-Bissau , and some 70 people in Japan.

Characteristic first names

Zdravka Bušić, Mladen Bušić, Željko Bušić, Marko Bušić, Dražen Bušić, Marin Bušić, Valentina Bušić, Krešimir Bušić, Nataša Bušić, Marijan Bušić, Anđelka Bušić, Mirela Bušić, Ante Bušić, Mirko Bušić, Ivica Bušić, Marijo Bušić, Franko Bušić, Vinko Bušić, Zdravko Bušić

Mentions in sources

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

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