Surname Dračić in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Dračić families are Croats (from Crikvenica ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Crikvenica. In Bogovići on the Island of Krk every tenth inhabitant had the family name Dračić.

Prevalence

About 40 people with faimily name Dračić live in Croatia today, in 18 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 40 percent.
They are only located in in 7 Croatian cities and four other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Crikvenica (<10), Varazdin (<10), Bregi in Opatija area (<5), and in Rijeka (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Dračić (including: Dracic , Dracass , Dratschmidt and Drachici ) is present in 12 countries on three continents. The family name "Dracic " is used by some 60 people in the United States and small number in Australia. "Drachici " is used by few people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Renata Dračić, Sanja Dračić, Hrvoje Dračić, Alen Dračić, Izet Dračić, Boris Dračić, Vedad Dračić, Denis Dračić, Irma Dračić, Zlatko Dračić, Đemal Dračić, Tatjana Dračić, Vedran Dračić, Emira Dračić, Anđelka Dračić, Natalija Dračić, Maja Dračić, Robert Dračić, Čedomir Dračić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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