Dragišić families can be both Serbs and Croats (from Ozalj area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Bjelovar. In Pribudić in Knin area every fifth inhabitant had the family name Dragišić.
Prevalence
About 230 people with faimily name Dragišić live in Croatia today, in 130 households. There were 440 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 33 cities and 25 other places, mostly in Zagreb (70), Plavno (15), Osijek (10), Pozega (10), and in Knin (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Dragišić (including: Dragisic , Dragissich ) is present in 6 countries on two continents. The family name "Dragisic " is used by some 200 people in the United States and small number in Germany.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.