In Croatia, Dugančić families are Croats (from Djakovo area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Bjelovar and Djakovo.
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Dugančić live in Croatia today, in three households only. There were 20 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased significantly. They are located in threee Croatian counties, two cities and 5 other places, mostly in Djakovo (<5), Bjelovar (<5), Satnica Djakovacka in Djakovo area (<5), Kusevac (<5), and in Gornje Plavnice (<5).
Outside Croatia
Family name Dugančić is present in this form only in Croatia.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.