Surname Dežić in modern Croatia

Dežić families are Croats and they are mostly from Tuzla Region , Bosnia. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Tuzla Region, Bosnia (Srebrenik area) and in Bosanian Posavina (Brcko area).

Prevalence

About 120 people with faimily name Dežić live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 15 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Vinkovci (25), Ludbreg (25), Zagreb (15), Lipovac in Vinkovci area (<10), and in Rijeka (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Dežić (including: Dezic , Dezich and Dezieck ) is present in five countries on three continents. The family name "Dezic " is used by small number of people in the United States and small number in Australia. "Dezich " is used by few people in the United States. "Dezieck " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Sanja Dežić, Julijana Dežić, Ankica Dežić, Anica Dežić, Zoran Dežić, Nikolina Dežić, Danijela Dežić, Dubravko Dežić, Marijana Dežić, Josip Dežić, Petar Dežić, Nevenka Dežić, Dražen Dežić, Gordana Dežić, Romina Dežić, Goran Dežić, Danijel Dežić, Juro Dežić, Antunka Dežić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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