Surname Cepić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Cepić families are generally Croats (from Pula area ), rarely Bosniaks (from Bosnian Krajina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosnian Krajina (Prijedor area) and in Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 50 people with faimily name Cepić live in Croatia today, in 20 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied.
They are located in 6 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and two other places, mostly in Zagreb (35), Sesvete (<5), Sibenik (<5), Vodnjan in Pula area (<5), and in Slavonski Brod (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Cepić (including: Zepic , Cepich , Cepic , Chepich , Chepici , Chepic and Chepick ) is present in 19 countries on four continents. "Cepich " is used by few people in Belarus and few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nedo Cepić, Dijana Cepić, Nermin Cepić, Mugdim Cepić, Djenana Cepić, Željko Cepić, Suljo Cepić, Emir Cepić, Advan Cepić, Senka Cepić, Alen Cepić, Dražen Cepić, Hasan Cepić, Smajil Cepić, Azra Cepić, Đurđica Cepić, Dušanka Cepić, Vlasta Cepić, Zlatko Cepić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

Do you know more?

If you want to preserve a family story or memory of a person with this surname:

Preserve memories