Surname Degmečić in modern Croatia

Degmečić families are Croats and they are mostly from Djakovo area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djakovo area and in Slavonski Brod.

Prevalence

About 100 people with faimily name Degmečić live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 150 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent.
They are located in 8 Croatian counties, in 10 cities and 7 other places, mostly in Donji Andrijevci (40) and Strizivojna (20) in Djakovo area, Zagreb (15), Slavonski Brod (10), and in Osijek (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Degmečić is present in this form only in Croatia.

Characteristic first names

Dunja Degmečić, Terezija Degmečić, Dražen Degmečić, Ivan Degmečić, Katica Degmečić, Šimo Degmečić, Marko Degmečić, Andrija Degmečić, Mirna Degmečić, Pavica Degmečić, Monika Degmečić, Katarina Degmečić, Damir Degmečić, Ružica Degmečić, Ivana Degmečić, Mirta Degmečić, Antonija Degmečić, Goranka Degmečić, Marina Degmečić

Mentions in sources

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

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