Surname Dretvić in modern Croatia

Dretvić families are Croats and they are mostly from Zupanja area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zupanja area and in Vinkovci.

Prevalence

About 200 people with faimily name Dretvić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 220 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent.
They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 12 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Gradiste (120) and Cerna (15) in Zupanja area, Zagreb (10), Zupanja (10), and in Ivankovo in Vinkovci area (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Dretvić is present in four countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Dretvić, Helena Dretvić, Mato Dretvić, Danica Dretvić, Marijana Dretvić, Matijas Dretvić, Dalibor Dretvić, Željko Dretvić, Mislav Dretvić, Manda Dretvić, Vinko Dretvić, Dražen Dretvić, Branko Dretvić, Ankica Dretvić, Nada Dretvić, Mladen Dretvić, Antun Dretvić, Vladimir Dretvić, Mara Dretvić

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.

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