Surname Dasović in modern Croatia

Dasović families are Croats and they are mostly from Gospic area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Otocac. In Novoselci in Hrvatska Kostajnica area every third inhabitant had the family name Dasović.

Prevalence

About 640 people with faimily name Dasović live in Croatia today, in 260 households. There were 770 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in all Croatian counties, in 39 cities and 67 other places, mostly in Zagreb (150), Otocac (35), Brinje in Senj area (30), Slavonski Brod (30), and in Perusic in Gospic area (25).

Outside Croatia

At least ten families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (4), Germany (3), Canada (2), and to Australia (1).
Family name Dasović (including: Dasovic , Dasovich , Dasovick and Dassovich ) is present in 15 countries worldwide. The family name "Dasovic " is used by some 100 people in the United States , about 100 in Congo , and some 50 people in Canada. "Dasovich " is used by some 200 people in the United States and small number in Canada. "Dasovick " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Dasović, Željko Dasović, Danijela Dasović, Maja Dasović, Tomislav Dasović, Božidar Dasović, Zlata Dasović, Goran Dasović, Zvonimir Dasović, Mihaela Dasović, Antonija Dasović, Barbara Dasović, Hrvoje Dasović, Tanja Dasović, Zdenko Dasović, Zoran Dasović, Danko Dasović, Jasmina Dasović, Davor Dasović

Mentions in sources

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

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