Dešić families are predominantly Croats and they are mostly from Senj , less frequently Serbs. According to some sources the family name originates from Travnik. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Rijeka and Senj. In Ratkovac in Nova Gradiska area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Dešić.
Prevalence
About 150 people with faimily name Dešić live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 20 cities and 14 other places, mostly in Rijeka (25), Vrh Martinscice in Bakr area (15), Slavonski Brod (10), Osijek (10), and in Bakar (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1929 in source Emigration Commission Zagreb.