Surname Dragaš in modern Croatia

Dragaš families can be both Serbs and Croats from Zadar area (Zemunik), very rarely Montenegrins. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zadar and Zagreb. In Mrkoplje in Pozega area every second inhabitant had the family name Dragaš.

Prevalence

About 560 people with faimily name Dragaš live in Croatia today, in 280 households. There were 630 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 43 cities and 50 other places, mostly in Zagreb (45), Rijeka (40), Zadar (40), Zemunik Donji in Zadar area (35), and in Petrinja (25).

Outside Croatia

At least four families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: Canada (2), the United States (1), and to Germany (1).
Family name Dragaš (including: Dragas , Dragash ) is present in 8 countries on two continents. The family name "Dragas " is used by some 200 people in the United States and small number in Greece. "Dragash " is used by some 80 people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Nikola Dragaš, Aleksandar Dragaš, Miodrag Dragaš, Nenad Dragaš, Cvetana Dragaš, Darko Dragaš, Nataša Dragaš, Dejan Dragaš, Mirko Dragaš, Zoran Dragaš, Mate Dragaš, Zvonko Dragaš, Edo Dragaš, Rozario Dragaš, Mićo Dragaš, Marija Dragaš, Milorad Dragaš, Jadranka Dragaš, Silvana Dragaš

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.

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