Surname Cimić in modern Croatia

Cimić families are Croats and they are mostly from Zlatar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zlatar and Zagreb.

Prevalence

About 70 people with faimily name Cimić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Zadar (<10), Komiza on the Island of Vis (<10), Zlatar-Bistrica in Oroslavje area (<5), and in Zlatar (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Cimić (including: Cimic , Zimic , Ziemiec , Zimicz , Chimich , Chimick , Chimics , Cimics and Chimicz ) is present in 25 countries on four continents. The family name "Cimic " is used by some 400 people in Turkey , about 60 in the United States , and some 60 people in Luxembourg. "Zimic " is used by some 800 people in Peru , about 200 in the United States , and small number of people in Germany. "Cimics " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Miljenko Cimić, Vedran Cimić, Nenada Cimić, Mario Cimić, Dragutin Cimić, Julijana Cimić, Mirna Cimić, Slavica Cimić, Zdravka Cimić, Sanja Cimić, Biserka Cimić, Željko Cimić, Ivana Cimić, Josip Cimić, Maja Cimić, Đurđica Cimić, Gordan Cimić, Slavko Cimić, Mate Cimić

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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