Surname Dević in modern Croatia

Dević families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Zadar area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Zadar. In Dučići in Podrinje (Bosnia) nearly every inhabitant had the family name Dević.

Prevalence

About 940 people with faimily name Dević live in Croatia today, in 420 households. There were 900 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 62 cities and 96 other places, mostly in Zagreb (145), Davor in Nova Gradiska area (55), Split (55), Zadar (55), and in Rijeka (45).

Outside Croatia

At least eight families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Germany (3), Australia (2), the United States (2), and to Switzerland (1).
Family name Dević (including: Devich , Devic , Devichi , Devick , Devici , Deviche , Devics , Dewicz , Dewic and Dewich ) is present in 39 countries worldwide. The family name "Devic " is used by some 300 people in France , about 90 in the United States , and small number of people in Indonesia. "Devich " is used by some 400 people in the United States , about 80 in Ukraine , and some 70 people in Argentina. "Dewich " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Saša Dević, Ivo Dević, Vladimir Dević, Ana Dević, Nenad Dević, Tamara Dević, Vesna Dević, Dragan Dević, Monika Dević, Milutin Dević, Biserka Dević, Nada Dević, Dušan Dević, Milan Dević, Marija Dević, Ratko Dević, Novo Dević, Ante Dević, Zdenko Dević

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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