Surname Dančević in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Dančević families are Croats (from Pleternica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Slavonski Brod.

Prevalence

About 30 people with faimily name Dančević live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 50 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 50 percent.
They are located in only five naselja i to in Sumece in Pleternica area (15), Zagreb (15), Sesvete (<10), Gornji Bogicevci in Nova Gradiska area (<5), and in Trogir (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Dančević (including: Dancevic , Dancewicz , Danchevich and Dancevich ) is present in 13 countries on three continents. "Dancewicz " is used by some 800 people in Poland , about 100 in the United States , and small number of people in Australia.

Characteristic first names

Nenad Dančević, Dorica Dančević, Ernest Dančević, Antun Dančević, Mladen Dančević, Nino Dančević, Luka Dančević, Petar Dančević, Kornelija Dančević, Dragomir Dančević, Stjepan Dančević, Ivana Dančević, Josip Dančević, Ana Dančević, Snježana Dančević, Anja Dančević, Želimir Dančević, Jadranka Dančević, Alen Dančević

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1606 in source Catholic Church Parish Records.

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