Dražetić families are Croats and they are mostly from Banja Luka area (Bosnia). According to some sources they are from Staro Cice near Velika Gorica. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Banja Luka Region, Bosnia (Banja Luka area) and in Middle Bosnia (Travnik area). In Melina in Banja Luka Region (Bosnia) every fourth inhabitant had the family name Dražetić.
Prevalence
About 430 people with faimily name Dražetić live in Croatia today, in 160 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 29 cities and 55 other places, mostly in Zagreb (80), Brodski Drenovac (35), Selci Djakovacki (25), Sibic (20), and in Ratkovica (20).
Outside Croatia
Family name Dražetić is present in three countries on two continents. The family name "Drazetic " is used by some 70 people in the United States.
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.
