Držanić families are Croats and they are mostly from Cakovec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Samobor.
Prevalence
About 230 people with faimily name Držanić live in Croatia today, in 90 households. There were 260 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 14 cities and 24 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Sveti Martin Pod Okicem (40), Galgovo (15), Drzimurec in Cakovec area (10), and in Samobor (10).
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.