Surname Dorotić in modern Croatia

Dorotić families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Vis. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Velika Gorica. In Podstražje on the Island of Vis every third inhabitant had the family name Dorotić.

Prevalence

About 300 people with faimily name Dorotić live in Croatia today, in 120 households. There were 370 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 27 other places, mostly in Zagreb (140), Velika Gorica (45), Dubranec (20), Sveti Ivan Zelina (15), and in Split (15).

Outside Croatia

At least nine families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (6), Australia (2), and to New Zealand (1).
Family name Dorotić (including: Dorotic , Dorotich , Dorotics and Dorotych ) is present in 14 countries on four continents. "Dorotics " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Mihovil Dorotić, Matilda Dorotić, Jeronim Dorotić, Dražen Dorotić, Domagoj Dorotić, Željko Dorotić, Valentina Dorotić, Siniša Dorotić, Marica Dorotić, Dubravka Dorotić, Damir Dorotić, Veljko Dorotić, Darko Dorotić, Stašenko Dorotić, Edita Dorotić, Vesna Dorotić, Franjo Dorotić, Mirela Dorotić, Mladen Dorotić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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