Derežić families are Croats and they are mostly from Djurdjevac area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Djurdjevac area and in Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 210 people with faimily name Derežić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 16 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Podravske Sesvete in Djurdjevac area (80), Zagreb (35), Pitomaca in Djurdjevac area (25), Rovinj (10), and in Djurdjevac (10).
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.