Surname Dabić in modern Croatia

Dabić families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Bosnian Posavina , often Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bosanian Posavina (Orasje area) and in Zagreb. In Matići in Bosanian Posavina every tenth inhabitant had the family name Dabić.

Prevalence

About 550 people with faimily name Dabić live in Croatia today, in 270 households. There were 770 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 41 cities and 75 other places, mostly in Zagreb (120), Zupanja (45), Sisak (25), Stitar (25), and in Komogovina in Hrvatska Kostajnica area (20).

Outside Croatia

At least seven families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (3), Switzerland (2), Austria (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Dabić (including: Dabich , Dabic , Dabych , Dabici , Dabicci and Dabitsch ) is present in 27 countries worldwide. "Dabich " is used by some 70 people in the United States , about 50 in Ukraine , and small number of people in Russian Federation. "Dabitsch " is used by few people in the United States. "Dabicci " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mirko Dabić, Pero Dabić, Marina Dabić, Milan Dabić, Duško Dabić, Siniša Dabić, Dean Dabić, Predrag Dabić, Sonja Dabić, Milivoj Dabić, Tamara Dabić, Branislav Dabić, Sanja Dabić, Lidija Dabić, Stevo Dabić, Ines Dabić, Ranko Dabić, Mirjana Dabić, Stanko Dabić

Mentions in sources

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

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